Sami Yli-Piipari

Dr. Sami Yli-Piipari is an associate professor in Children’s Physical Activity, Fitness, and School Health Promotion at the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Georgia. He directs Children’s Physical Activity and Fitness Laboratory specializing on obesity prevention and children’s physical activity and motivation. In addition, he is a Co-Director of Sport Instruction Research Laboratory. Dr. Yli-Piipari earned his PhD in 2011 from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland in Sport Pedagogy with concentration on exercise psychology. After working as junior faculty at the University of Jyvaskyla, Dr. Yli-Piipari spent two postdoc years at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro, and three years as an assistant professor at the University of Memphis. Dr. Yli-Piipari has published 60+ book chapters and research articles in peer-reviewed journals and he has been able to secure more than $1.6mil in external funding. He is a research fellow of the Society for Health and Physical Educators and an editorial board member of the Journal of Teaching, Research, and Media in Kinesiology and Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.