Dr. Arto Hautala has a background of physical therapy, exercise physiology and biomechanics. He gained his doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oulu in Finland from the field of physiology focusing physical exercise and autonomic nervous system. Dr. Hautala has worked as a post-doc human genomics researcher in the laboratory of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in USA where he familiarized himself with molecular biology and methods of genetic analysis.
At the present he works as Associate Professor (Professor, starting 1.11.2025) of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation (Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland). Dr. Hautala represents the head of academic discipline of physiotherapy in Finland and is the director of Physiotherapy Team.
His research interests include benefits of using technology in remote physiotherapy and rehabilitation, personalized exercise therapy in prevention, disease management and rehabilitation, individual exercise training responses in health and disease: mechanisms and solutions, prognostic markers and mechanisms for autonomic nervous system dysfunction and cardiovascular mortality, and a question related to individual subjective pain experience: could it be quantified?
Dr. Hautala serves as a chair in the working group planning Finnish Current Care guideline for exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation and he is an expert appointed by the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim and the Executive Board of Current Care for the Finnish guideline of physical activity and exercise training. Hautala is the director of FiRe (Finnish Universities Network for Rehabilitation, 25 Universities in Finland) and the president of the Finnish Society of Sport Sciences 2025-2026. Additionally, Dr. Hautala serves as an expert to the Research and Evaluation Division to assist National Sports Council (Ministry of Culture and Education, Finland) during 2023-2027.
Research interests include benefits of using technology in remote physiotherapy and rehabilitation, personalized exercise therapy in prevention, disease management and rehabilitation, individual exercise training responses in health and disease: mechanisms and solutions, prognostic markers and mechanisms for autonomic nervous system dysfunction and cardiovascular mortality and a question related to individual subjective pain experience: could it be quantified?
