Eero A. Haapala, PhD: Physical activity, cognition and motor control in children.

In this episode we talk with Eero A. Haapala, PhD
Adjunct Professor in Paediatric Exercise Physiology

Eero is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, located at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences. Eero's main interests are in the relationships of physical activity, dietary factors, fitness, fatness, and metabolic syndrome to brain, cognition, and academic achievement among children and adolescents. Eero has published scientific articles on the associations of physical fitness, adiposity, and physical activity with arterial stiffness in children and adolescents.

After completing his PhD in physiology at the School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Eero visited Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, UMC Utrecht as a post doc researcher under supervision Dr. Tim Takken. Eero has also worked for the Children's Health and Exercise Reserach Centre at the University of Exeter, UK, as a visiting postdoctoral researcher. 

Specialties:

• Physical activity and learning
• Paediatric exercise medicine and exercise physiology
• Physical activity and physical fitness in paediatric populations
• The associations of dietary factors with cognition and learning
• The relationships of health behaviors to vascular health and cardiometabolic risk factors since childhood