Senior Lecturer - Queensland University of Technology
American Physiological Society (APS)Exercise, Immunity, Inflammation, Metabolism, skeletal muscle
Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland) Professional memberships and associations Board Member of International Society of Exercise and Immunology (www.isei.dk) Member of American Physiological Society (www.the-aps.org) F1000 Prime Faculty Member (Muscle & Connective Tissue) Associate Editor of Exercise Immunology Review Editorial Board Member of Frontiers in Sports and Exercise Nutrition Senior Research Affiliate, Queensland Academy of Sport Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland
Assistant Professor
College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignCardiac Function, Epigenetic, Metabolism, metabolism and diets, Nutritional Sciences, Prebiotics, skeletal muscle
Dr. Diego Hernández-Saavedra received his BS Degree in Pharmaceutical Biological Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico in 2012. Thereafter, he completed his Ph.D. degree in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois in 2018. After completing his Ph.D., he went to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center to complete his postdoctoral training in 2021. Dr. Hernández-Saavedra’s research program focuses on the beneficial effects of exercise to understand the adaptations in key metabolites and lipids in health and disease, the epigenetic mechanisms associated exercise that improve metabolism and bioenergetics, and the transgenerational effect of sedentarism and exercise on metabolism and cardiac function.