Myrto Mavilidi

Myrto Mavilidi is a Senior Fellow at the School of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia, specializing in educational psychology and physical activity interventions. She holds a PhD from the University of Wollongong, an MSc from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a BSc from Panteion University.

Her research focuses on designing school-based physical activity interventions to enhance cognitive, academic, and psychosocial outcomes in children and adolescents. Key areas include integrating physical activity into curricula without compromising academic performance, teacher training for active learning, and leveraging embodied cognition principles. Recent work explores digital footprint management and co-designed educational tools.

Notable contributions include meta-analyses on physical activity’s effects on executive functions and systematic reviews on correlates of childhood physical activity. She has secured grants such as the ARC DECRA and led projects like 'MoveEarly' to promote physical activity in early education.

Awards include the Vice Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the Dame Bridget Ogilvie Citation Award. She supervises PhD candidates on topics like Moroccan school physical activity patterns and self-regulation in learning environments.

Teaching roles include courses on educational psychology and research methodology at University of Newcastle and University of Wollongong. She is active on editorial boards and peer-review panels for journals like Contemporary Educational Psychology and Frontiers in Psychology.