Jonatan R Ruiz

jonatan-ruizJonatan R Ruiz
Date of birth: 22-03-1978
Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow
E-mail: --LOGIN--a5793eacbcd3718b25876315ae61d329ugr[dot]es
Phone: 0034 958 242 754
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  • Co-director of the PROFITH Group and Vice-director of the Department of Physical Education and Sport

Jonatan R Ruiz is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sport Sciences at the University of Granada (Spain). Jonatan has a Degree in Physical Education, a second Degree in Sport Sciences in the University of Granada (Spain). He also has a PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Granada (Spain), and a second PhD in Medical Sciences from the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). He was the first Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow in Spain (2011-2016) with the Sport Sciences degree.

His research focuses on physical activity and clinical epidemiology to study the interaction between physical activity, fitness, features of the metabolic disorders, and genetics.

Key publications

  • 1. Ruiz JR, Rizzo NS, Hurtig-Wennlöf A, Ortega FB, Warnberg J, Sjöström M. Relations of total physical activity and intensity to fitness and fatness in children; The European Youth Heart Study. Am J Clin Nutr 2006; 84: 299-303.
  • 2. Ruiz JR, Sui X, Lobelo F, Morrow JR Jr, Jackson AW, Sjöström M, Blair SN. Association between muscular strength and mortality in men. BMJ 2008; 337:a439.
  • 3. Ruiz JR, Labayen I, Ortega FB, Legry V, Moreno LA, Dallongeville J, Martínez-Gómez D, Bokor S, Manios Y, Ciarapica D, Gottrand F, De Henauw S, Molnár D, Sjöström M, Meirhaeghe A; HELENA Study Group. Attenuation of the effect of the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism on total and central body fat by physical activity in adolescents: the HELENA study. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010 Apr;164(4):328-33.
  • 4. Ruiz JR, Perales M, Pelaez M, Lopez C, Lucia A, Barakat R. Supervised exercise-based intervention to prevent excessive gestational weight gain: a randomized controlled trial. Mayo Clin Proc. 2013 Dec;88(12):1388-97.
  • 5. Ruiz JR, Huybrechts I, Cuenca-García M, Artero EG, Labayen I, Meirhaeghe A, Vicente-Rodriguez G, Polito A, Manios Y, González-Gross M, Marcos A, Widhalm K, Molnar D, Kafatos A, Sjöström M, Moreno LA, Castillo MJ, Ortega FB; on behalf of the HELENA study group. Cardiorespiratory fitness and ideal cardiovascular health in European adolescents. Heart. 2015 May 15;101(10):766-73.