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Dr. Stefanos TYROVOLAS

 

Dr. Tyrovolas has a BSc in Dietetics and Nutrition, a MSc in ¨Applied Dietetics¨ and a PhD in Nutrition from the Harokopio University of Athens (Greece). In 2014 his PhD title was homologated from the University of Barcelona (Spain). Dr Tyrovolas did his postdoctoral research at CIBERSAM, the Foundation Sant Joan de Deu and the ISCIII between 2013-2016. Then he continued his work for 4 more years, in the same Institutions as Senior Researcher in ageing epidemiology, nutrition and chronic disease prevention focusing on the older adult's public health. Between 2020-2023, Dr Tyrovolas was appointed as Research Assistant Professor (2020-2022) and as Assistant Professor (2022-2023) at the School of Nursing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Between 2021 to 2023 he served also as Deputy Director of the WHOCC center at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In 2024 he joined the George Mason University in Virginia (USA), as Associate Professor.   Dr Tyrovolas has >160 research papers and a H index of 53. Among others, he has received national and international research grants and prestigious scholarships as senior Researcher, PI and CoI from the Institute Carlos III (Spain), from Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+ (EU), from HMRF and GRF entities in Hong Kong. His research interests include older adults’ public health nutrition with special focus on sarcopenia, frailty and healthy ageing. His research extends on ageing epidemiology and big data synthesis and analysis.



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