Department: Didáctica de la Educación Física, Plástica y Musical

Research institute: Instituto de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias Biomédicas (INiBICA)

Area: Physical Education and Sport

Research group: Galeno

Email: magdalena.cuenca@uca.es

Áreas PAIDI: Ciencias y Técnicas de la Salud

Doctor by the Universidad de Granada with the thesis Interacción dieta y actividad física en la salud de los adolescentes europeos. Repercusión sobre la composición corporal, condición física y factores de riesgo cardiovascular 2013. Supervised by Dr. Manuel Joaquín Castillo Garzón, Dr. Francisco Bartolomé Ortega Porcel, Dr. Jonatan Ruíz Ruíz.

Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, Master’s Degree in Nutrition, and PhD in Biomedicine from University of Granada. She has carried out several research stays in prestigious international centers in the area, and has participated in national, European and international projects. She is currently Lecture at the University of Cadiz and member of the GALENO Research Group. Her research has focused on the study of the independent and/or combined effects of diet, physical activity and physical fitness on cardiovascular health in young people and adults. Currently, her research activity is focusing on methodological studies of physical fitness assessment within the framework of the ADULTFIT project (DEP2017-88043-R), for the development of a battery of field tests to assess health-related physical fitness in adults.