Katri Ruutu Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

I am working as a doctoral researcher in Johan Eriksson's group. My main focus lies in the XAGE exercise intervention study where our goal is to investigate the effects of physical exercise on biological aging in middle-aged and older people. I am also investigating physical activity and biological aging in the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study.

Helsinki

I work as a senior lecturer in Sports and health promotion program at the department of Health and well-being. I teach exercise physiology, coaching and fitness testing for sports instructor and physiotherapy students as well as the basics of the theory of science and methodology for the students at our department. If needed, I have also had lifestyle related lectures (e.g. sleep and recovery) in the health promotion/psychology courses. In addition, I'm responsible for part of our practical studies in the field and one of my tasks is also supervision of theses. I also guide and coach our students during their studies as a tutor teacher and when they are writing their Bachelor's Thesis. In addition, I'm in charge of our fitness testing laboratory which includes the overall management, teaching, fitness testing of clients with different backgrounds (including testing, analysis and use of the results) and the maintenance of the laboratory and measuring equipment. I am interested in digital learning and applying it on my courses. Lately, I acted as a a facilitator in Teaching practice (a pilot course in the project Higher Education Learning Lab) organized by University of Vaasa.

Helsinki

I participated in the gathering of data as well as the analysis and reporting of the research results in different research projects. I was part of the exercise testing team and I participated also in other practical work at the exercise testing laboratory. During that time I also wrote my Master's thesis "Cardiorespiratory and local tissue oxygenation responses to incremental exercise in type 1 diabetic patients and healthy controls".

Jyväskylä

I worked as an exercise physiologist and my work comprised of the different expertise tasks in research and development, marketing and providing content for different aims in the company including web pages and different manuals. Expertise tasks included e.g. the development of Firstbeat Hyvinvointianalyysi and different e-coaches as well as market research and validating of a fitness test.

Helsinki Area, Finland

My work task included the analysis of microchip data using different bioinformatic tools in a project where the aim was to identify new cancer genes using different techniques covering the whole genome. I also used software including FileMaker Pro, CellDesigner and Rosetta Luminator to build up microchip database and to model signalling cascades. Programming language Perl was also used in different tasks.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Exercise Physiology

Activities and Societies: SoccerExercise physiology (Master degree studies), coaching and fitness testing (Bachelor Degree studies).

Teacher'S Pedagogical Qualification, Pedagogy And Educational Sciences

Required studies for a teacher position (60 ECTS credits) in the training program of Vocational Teacher Education including Basic studies.

Bioinformatics

Activities and Societies: Inkubio, the student organization of the bioinformaticsUndergraduate studies in science and technology (School.

Psychology

Basic studies in psychology

Matriculation Examination

Normal high school studies plus specialization in natural sciences.