Maria Papadaki is a research assistant at FAME Laboratory. Her research interests focus on understanding the physiological and metabolic responses of exercise in clinical populations. Her role in FAME Lab is to support the team’s research projects by contributing to data collection and analysis.
Maria Papadaki has experience in Exercise Science and Clinical Physiology, with a scientific interest in the relationship between exercise and cardiovascular health. Her research focuses on understanding the physiological and metabolic responses of exercise in clinical populations. Her goal is to investigate environmental factors and how they can affect cardiovascular system function.
Maria Papadaki holds a degree in Physical Education and Sport Science from the University of Thessaly, with a specialization in Exercise and Health – Therapeutic Exercise in Clinical Populations. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Exercise and Exercise-based Rehabilitation in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete. She has collaborated with the Exercise Cardiovascular Physiology Research Group at the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, where she actively contributed to clinical studies exploring the effects of exercise in patients with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, such as heart failure, diabetes mellitus, obesity, organ transplantation, and vascular glaucoma. Her research and laboratory experience include cardiopulmonary exercise testing and physiological monitoring, encompassing cardiac imaging support, gas exchange analysis, muscle strength and body composition assessment, and functional capacity testing. Furthermore, she has specialized expertise in the use of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to investigate exercise responses, as well as in data processing and analysis using Python, and the application of machine learning models for the classification of physiological patterns.
