I am currently a Professor in Clinical Exercise Physiology at the Universities of Thessaly (Permanent Chair), Greece and the University of Wolverhampton (Visiting), UK. My work evolves around physical activity, exercise and health and specifically how physical activity and/or exercise can be used to improve – via specific physiological and molecular/genetic mechanisms – disease symptoms and health parameters in patients with different chronic diseases. My interests also involve implementation science and particularly, how effective interventions can be implemented in healthcare. I have led randomised controlled trials and epidemiological studies and have published more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications in my field. My work has had a significant scientific impact since it has helped the formation of position statements and improve existing guidelines for treating different non-communicable diseases. In specific, specific publications have been used, amongst others, by the World Health Organisation, the British Heart Foundation, the National Health Services and the European League Against Rheumatism. I have also received both national and international grants (Medical Research Council, FP-7, Horizon 2020), I am actively acting as an expert evaluator in multiple funding bodies and peer-reviewed journals and I am an elected member of the Scientific Committee of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR), the largest organization responsible for developing recommendations for rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease.

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