Rui Wang

I teach at the health promotion program, master's program, doctoral courses. Some of my main courses are:

• Physical Activity and Healthy Brain Functions, 7.5 credits (School of Health Sciences)
• Independent project for the Health Promotion Programme
• Quantitative Methods, 5 credits (Master's Programme for Nordic Master in Outdoor Life)
• Latent Variable Modelling I. Structural Equation Modelling, 7.5 credits (Master's Programme and PhD courses)

I also supervise independent projects at undergraduate and graduate level.

My research focuses primarily on geriatric epidemiology, especially in healthy lifestyles associated with aging and age-related brain diseases, such as dementia. My research interest includes investigating the role of an active lifestyle in body-heart-brain connections during the aging process.

In previous and ongoing projects, I have studied:

• The associations between vascular risk factors, structural brain characteristics and dementia in elderly populations.
• Common risk and protective factors and mechanisms between stroke and Alzheimer's disease.
• Neuroformation markers in small vessel diseases of the brain, cerebral perfusion, and cerebral blood flow.
• The associations between physical activity, fitness and executive function in adults and older adults.
• Motor function and cognition in aging and dementia.
• The role of environmental factors in aging and age-related brain diseases.

I have an established and ongoing collaboration with Division of Clinical Geriatrics Karolinska Institute, the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University, and Department of Medicine at Gothenburg University.

I have had the privilege of collaborating with esteemed international researchers, some of whom include:

• Ozioma Okonkwo, PhD, Associate Professor, Geriatrics Faculty, Clinical Science Center, Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
• Fuzhong Xue, PhD, Professor, Core facility in Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Shandong University, China