Anna-Kaisa Karppanen
PhD
Sport Medicine
Anna-Kaisa Karppanen received her PhD degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oulu in 2024, major in Medicine.
Her research focused on the associations of infant motor development and psychological traits (with special interest in temperament profiles and physical and social anhedonia traits) in young adulthood with physical activity and sedentary behavior in middle age in a large birth cohort (Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966).
Currently she also works as a project coordinator at the city of Oulu (Department of education and culture). The project develops a low-treshold physical activity counseling service for pupils.
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Finland
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University of Oulu
Finland