Niki Konstantinides

Niki Konstantinides is a postdoctoral research fellow for the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University. She is a lifelong athlete whose interest in athlete outcomes began when she worked as a sports medicine intern for University of California (UC) Berkeley Football. As a graduate research fellow for the Pac-12 Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE) Consortium, Konstantinides pursued her PhD studying concussion incidence, symptom presentation, and recovery duration in male and female varsity sports across the Pac-12. Her research interests include health outcomes associated with sport, as well as sex differences related to concussion incidence and recovery.

Konstantinides received her BA in molecular and cell biology with an emphasis in neurobiology at UC Berkeley, and her PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in integrative physiology.

Team: Research Team