Jasper Schipperijn

Jasper Schipperijn is a Professor in Active Living Environments at the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark. Since 2022, he is leading the World Playground Research Institute. He has an MSc degree in Forest and Nature Management from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and a PhD degree in Greenspace Management from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research interests revolve around three main topics 1) playgrounds, 2) conducting multi-disciplinary intervention studies to create active living environments and 3) developing tools and methods that make it possible to measure active living and the environment it takes place in.