Konstantina Dipla is currently a professor at the Department of Sports Science at Serres, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She received her Ph.D. degree in exercise physiology from Temple University, PA, USA (1997). She completed her postdoctoral studies in the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Temple University (1998) and worked as an assistant scientist at the Cardiovascular Resesarch Center. Her work is in the field of clinical exercise physiology, focusing on mechanisms of cardiopulmonary disease and their regression as a result of exercise training. She has collaborated with several hospital clinics/laboratories, investigating the role of exercise in hypertension, obesity, and diabetes. In collaboration with the Pulmonary Clinic at Papanikolaou Hospital, Dr. Dipla is running the pulmonary rehabilitation program. She has published >97 international peer-reviewed papers. Her work has been internationally recognized (h index 27 in Scopus and 31 in Google Scholar) and has been cited by >2415 authors(Scopus). She serves as a reviewer for several journals in exercise physiology and health fields. She received the “Professional Opportunity Award for Meritorious Research” from the American Physiological Society (1997). Her research studies received awards from national (Hellenic Society of Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry, Hellenic Thoracic Society, Hypertension Society, etc.) and international (Artery Society) organizations.
Professor Andreas Zafeiridis received his Ph.D. from Temple University (USA) in exercise physiology. During his doctoral/postdoctoral studies, he worked in the Cardiovascular Research Laboratory (Temple University, USA), the Rehabilitation Department of Lung Diseases (Temple University Hospital, USA), and the Research Department of Cooper University Hospital (USA). During his stay in the USA, he studied the structural changes of cardiomyocytes in healthy heart failure patients and in experimental models of atrophy and hypertrophy of the myocardium (Temple University) and conducted numerous studies of basic and clinical research (Cooper Hospital). Since 2007, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at Serres (Aristotle University, Greece). Currently, he collaborates with the Department of Medicine of Aristotle University (Papageorgiou Papanikolaou, and Ippokratio Hospitals) and participates in the pulmonary rehabilitation program. His research interests include the following: (i) exercise testing and prescription for the promotion of health and improvement of exercise performance, (ii) cardiovascular/autonomic/metabolic responses during aerobic/resistance exercise, and (iii) muscle/brain oxygenation and vascular function in healthy and diseased. He has published >95 international articles in exercise physiology and his work has been internationally recognized (Google Scholar/Scopus: h-index 34/29, citations 4430/22521).
