Researches how the lifestyle influences the cardiometabolic health
Emmanuel (Manos) Stamatakis is an associate professor at the University of Sydney and an honorary senior Lecturer at the University College London. He leads an epidemiologic and interventional research program investigating how lifestyles and health related behaviours influence cardiometabolic health, mental wellbeing and mortality risk and how the socioeconomic environment influences these lifestyle health behaviours and their health effects. He also leads the Charles Perkins Centre project nodes on Incidental Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour and Dog Ownership and Human Health as well as numerous international collaborations involving major epidemiologic cohorts such as the 1970 British Birth Cohort, Whitehall II, 45 and Up, the Health Survey for England and the UK Biobank.
Stamatakis completed in 1995 his B.Sc. in Sport Science and Physical Education from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He then completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Exercise and Health from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom in 1998 and 2002 respectively with his Ph.D. thesis “In-depth physical activity profiling of severely obese children and adolescents using objective and self-reported methodologies”.
From April 2002 till June 2005, he was a post-doc research fellow in the Health & Social Surveys Research Group of the department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University College London. The last year, he was also the Director of the Health Survey for England, a Joint Health Surveys Unit of the University College London.
In October 2007, Stamatakis was a National Institute for Health Research post-doctoral fellow on Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention on the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of the University College London. He kept that position until December 2010.
Stamatakis then became head of the Population Health Domain Physical Activity Research Group (PARG) at University College Londonin December 2010. In February 2011 he was also a National Institute for Health Research Career Development Fellow on Sedentary Behaviour and Cardiometabolic Health on the department of Epidemiology and Public Health.
In 2013 he was appointed as a Principal Research Fellow in the University of Sydney for a year and in the period 2014 – 2015, he was appointed as an Associate Professor of Exercise at the same university. From 2014 he holds the position of Honorary Reader at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of University College London and from 2016 he holds the position of Associate Professor & NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at Sydney Medical School, part of the University of Sydney.
Emmanuel Stamatakis has received a Postgraduate Fellowship Award in 2007 and a Career Development Fellowship in 2011 by the National Institute for Health Research, the Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr. Award in 2009, the 2012 Royal College of Psychiatrists (Scotland) Research Prize and the 2012 Endocrine Society’s International Award for Publishing Excellence in 2013, the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, the Best Observational Study 2015 Award in 2016 and a Senior Research Fellowship from the National Medical and Health Research Council in 2016. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers in top exercise, physical activity, epidemiology, and preventive medicine journals as well as highly regarded medical, cardiology and multidisciplinary journals.
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