Position: Associate Professor
Tel/fax: +30- 210-7276114
Section: Sports Medicine & Biology of Exercise
E-mail: mkoskolu[at]phed.uoa[dot]gr
Scientific discipline
Exercise Physiology
Teaching
-Ergophysiology
-Ergometry
-Physical Activity and Aging
-Nutrition: Sports Performance and Health
-Exercise, Fitness, and Health
Research interests
-Cardiovascular and respiratory response to exercise
-Oxygen transport system and exercise performance (anemia, hypoxia, apnea, exercise-induced hypoxemia)
-Physical activity and aging
Degrees
-Bachelor of Physical Education and Sport Science, Department of Physical Education and Sports Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1985.
-Master in Physical Education (Exercise Physiology), School of Physical Education, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1991.
-Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), August Krogh Institute (Zoophysiology and Sport Biological Theory), Department of Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1998.
Indicative Publications
- Koskolou, M., McKenzie, D.C. (1994). Arterial hypoxemia and performance during intense exercise. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 68: 80-86.
- Koskolou, M.D., Roach, R.C., Calbet, J.A.L., Rädegran, G., Saltin, B. (1997). Cardiovascular response to dynamic knee-extension exercise. American Journal of Physiology, 273: H1787-H1793.
- Koskolou, M.D., Calbet, J.A.L., Rädegran, G., Roach, R.C. (1997). Hypoxia and the cardiovascular response to dynamic exercise with acute anemia in humans. American Journal of Physiology, 272: H2655-H2663.
- Saltin, B., Rädegran, G., Koskolou, M.D., Roach, R.C. (1998). Skeletal muscle blood flow and its regulation during exercise. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, 162: 421-436.
- Calbet J.A.L., Lundby C., Koskolou, M., Boushel, R. (2006). Importance of hemoglobin concentration to exercise: Acute manipulations. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology, 151(2-3): 132-140.
- Vogiatzis, I., Georgiadou, O., Koskolou, M., Athanasopoulos, D., Kostikas, K., Golemati, S., Wagner, H. Roussos, C., Wagner, P.D., Zakynthinos, S. (2007). Effects of hypoxia on diaphragmatic fatigue in highly trained athletes. Journal of Physiology, 581(1): 299-308.
- Lundby, C., Robach, P., Boushel, R., Thomsen, J.J., Rasmussen, P., Koskolou, M., Calbet,J.A. (2008). Does recombinant human EPO increase exercise capacity by means other than augmenting O2 transport? Journal of Applied Physiology, 105(2): 581-587.
- Kounalakis, S.N., Koskolou, M.D., Geladas, N.D. (2009). Oxygen saturation in the triceps brachii muscle during an arm Wingate test: the role of training and power output. Research in Sports Medicine, 17(3): 171-81.
- Cherouveim, E.D., Botoni, P.G., Koskolou, M.D., Geladas, N.D. (2013). Effect of gender on maximal breath-hold time. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 113(5): 1321-1330, 2013.
- Gonzalez Henriquez, J.J., Losa-Reyna, J., Torres Peralta, R., Rädegran, G., Koskolou, M., Calbet, J.A.L. (2015). A new equation to estimate temperature-corrected PaCO2 from PETCO2 during exercise in normoxia and hypoxia. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. doi: 10.111/sms.12545