Dr. Carolina Lundqvist

Carolina Lundqvist, Ph.D., is a Senior Associate Professor of Psychology and Associate Professor of Sport Sciences, as well as a Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist at Linköping University, Sweden.

She serves as a researcher at the Athletics Research Center at Linköping University and is currently the research coordinator at LiU Elite Sports, the dual-career program for elite athletes at Linköping University.

Additionally, she is an associate editor of the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sports (JSAMS).

Her research interests focus on high-performance sports, encompassing areas such as wellbeing and mental health, safeguarding, leadership, sustainable elite sports careers from junior to senior levels, and psychological performance enhancement. 

With extensive experience in applied sports psychology and clinical psychotherapy with elite athletes and their coaches from various individual and team sports, Lundqvist has contributed her expertise at numerous European and World Championships, as well as several winter and summer Olympic Games.

She has spent two decades as a sports psychology consultant, and for several years, she coordinated the psychological support program for the Swedish Olympic Committee.

Additionally, she has undertaken various assignments for the Swedish Sports Confederation, elite sports clubs, and a wide range of sports federations over the years.

Currently, she is involved as a member of the Medical Commission at Swedish Athletics and the Medical Council at the Swedish Figure Skating Association and is engaged in several research collaborations with sports federations and organizations both nationally and internationally.