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Department of Physical Education and Sport Science

KERAMIDAS MICHAIL

Position: Assistant Professor
Tel/fax: +30 210 727 6042
Section: Sport Medicine & Biology of Exercise
E-mail: mkeram@phed.uoa.gr

 

Scientific discipline
Environmental Exercise Physiology

Teaching

  • Human Physiology
  • Exercise Physiology
  • Exercise, Fitness and Health
  • Exercise Prescription for Chronic Diseases
  • Ergonomics
  • Scuba and Skin Diving: Physiology and Safety

Research interests

  • Physiological and cognitive responses during short- and long-term exposure to environmental extremes
  • Independent and interactive effects of environmental and behavioral stressors on human health and performance

Degrees

  • Postdoctoral Researcher: Department of Environmental Physiology, School of Technology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. 2011-2014.
  • PhD: Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2011.
  • MSc: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 2006.
  • BSc: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 2003.

 

Indicative Publications

  1. Moes M.I., Elia A., Eiken O., Keramidas M.E. (2025). Heat-producing thermoeffector plasticity in response to prolonged iterative exposure to a high heat-loss environment: No evidence of thermoregulatory fatigue. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 328(4): R433-R446.
  2. Brink A., Keramidas M.E., Bergsten E., Eiken O. (2024). Influence of spatial orientation training in a centrifuge on the ability of fighter pilots to assess the bank angle during flight without visual references. Journal of Neurophysiology. 132(3): 710-721.
  3. Elia A., Gennser M., Eiken O., Keramidas M.E. (2024). Effects of hyperventilation on repeated breath-holding while in a fasting state: do risks outweigh the benefits? American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 326: R319-R329.
  4. Moes M.I., Elia A., Gennser M., Eiken O., Keramidas M.E. (2023). Nitrous oxide consistently attenuates thermogenic and thermoperceptual responses to repetitive cold stress in humans. Journal of Applied Physiology. 135(3): 631-641.
  5. Eiken O, Keramidas M.E., Sköldefors H., Kölegård R. (2022). Human cardiovascular adaptation to hypergravity. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 322(6): R597-R608.
  6. Keramidas M.E., Kölegård R., Sundblad P., Sköldefors H., Eiken O. (2021). Differential responsiveness of glabrous and non-glabrous skin to local transmural pressure elevations: impact of 5 weeks of iterative local pressure loading. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 321(5): R742-R750.
  7. Keramidas M.E., Kölegård R., Eiken O. (2020). Hypoxia gradually augments metabolic and thermoperceptual responsiveness to repeated whole-body cold stress in humans. Experimental Physiology. 105(12): 2123-2140.
  8. Salvadego D., Keramidas M.E., Kölegård R., Brocca L., Lazzer S., Mavelli I., Rittweger J., Eiken O., Mekjavic I.B., Grassi B. (2018). PlanHab*: hypoxia does not worsen the impairment of skeletal muscle oxidative function induced by bed rest alone. The Journal of Physiology. 596(15): 3341-3355.
  9. Keramidas M.E., Kölegård R., Mekjavic I.B., Eiken O. (2016). PlanHab: hypoxia exaggerates the bed-rest-induced reduction in peak oxygen uptake during upright cycle-ergometry. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 311(2): H453-464.
  10. Keramidas M.E., Kounalakis S.N., Eiken O., Mekjavic I.B. (2012). Carbon monoxide exposure during exercise performance: muscle and cerebral oxygenation. Acta Physiologica. 204(4): 544-554.

 

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