Ellinor Nilsson

I am a PhD student and nutritionist in the research group IMPACT [1], led by professor Marie Löf. Mainly, I work with investigating movement behaviors in children and how they are associated with health markers.

[1] https://ki.se/en/bionut/the-impact-research-group-marie-lof

The largest project that I have been working with during my PhD is the International Study of Movement Behaviors in the Early Years (SUNRISE [1]), aiming to investigate physical activity, sedentary behavior (screen time) and sleep in children worldwide aged 3-5 years. Data collection for SUNRISE Sweden started in 2021 and is currently ongoing, and we assess movement behaviors (accelerometer and questionnaire), anthropometrics, motor skills, cognitive skills, and physical fitness in Swedish preschoolers. Two other projects in my PhD include analyses on sleep (cross-sectional, published [2]) and sedentary behaviour (cross-sectional and longitudinal, published [3]) in 9-year-olds, and if there are any associations to cardiometabolic markers. Lastly, I include a qualitative study in my PhD, investigating perceptions and needs of preschool teachers and principals in the promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviours in preschoolers (interview study, published [4]).

[1] https://sunrise-study.com/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38676458/ ;

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40833814/

[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40926217/