Javier Bueno Antequera

Javier Bueno Antequera is a Permanent Professor at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, affiliated with the Department of Sport and Informatics and the Research Centre for Physical and Sports Performance (CIRFD). He leads the AFSD research group (Physical Activity, Health and Sport) and has dedicated his career since 2013 to improving mental health through evidence-based exercise interventions for Major Depression, Schizophrenia, and Bipolar Disorder.

He earned his PhD from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in 2018 with a thesis on sedentary behavior, physical activity, and physical fitness as complementary tools for health evaluation in severe mental disorders, supervised by Dr. Diego Munguía Izquierdo.

His research focuses on:

• Mental Health and Exercise
• Physical Activity Interventions for Mental Disorders
• Health Promotion through Sport
• Sedentary Behavior Reduction
• Physical Fitness Assessment

Through PowerONyou, his initiative has achieved over 80% program completion and 100% participant retention among 720+ individuals, demonstrating exercise's efficacy as non-pharmacological mental health treatment.

No scientific awards were mentioned in the provided information.

Dr. Bueno Antequera has supervised doctoral theses and trained 52+ professionals in his methodology, though specific grant details are not provided in the source material.

He operates within the AFSD research group and CIRFD research center while directing PowerONyou's community implementation of exercise-based mental health programs.