Biography and expertise

Biography

Associate Professor Myrto Mavilidi is an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow in Educational Psychology. Myrto's research focuses on designing school-based physical activity interventions for children and adolescents to enhance cognitive, learning, and psychosocial outcomes. In 2022, she was named as one of the most productive early career scholars for 2015-2022 internationally in educational psychology (based on Fong et al., 2022_EPR). She has with a strong track record (> 80% of her publications in the top journals and external competitive funding received in Australia and internationally). She has received 6M AUD in external competitive funding. Myrto is a member of the American Sports Institute's International Board of Advisors.

Myrto's work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals

Source: Scopus

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Organisational affiliations

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University

Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child (Australia, Brisbane)

Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Education, University of Wollongong

Education

University of Wollongong (Australia, Wollongong) - UOW
2014–2018, Doctor of Philosophy
Educational Psychology
Master of Science (MSc), Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands, Rotterdam) - EUR
Psychology
Bachelor of Science (BS), Panteion University (Greece, Athens)