Ana Reyes holds a Ph.D. in Sports Sciences, with a specialization in Sport, Genetics and Motor Behavior (2019), and a Master’s degree in Adapted Physical Activity (2013), both from the University of Porto. She is an Assistant Professor at Instituto Piaget (Almada) and a Guest Professor at Instituto Manuel Teixeira Gomes (ISMAT). She is a researcher at Insight: Piaget Research Center of Ecological Human Development and a collaborating researcher at the Center of Research, Education, Innovation and Intervention in Sport (CIFI2D), funded by FCT and based at the Faculty of Sport, University of Porto (since 2011), as well as at CIDEFES, Lusófona University (since September 2023). Her research focuses on children motor development and relies on a holistic interpretation of human development to best understand the intertwined relationships between individual and environmental characteristics that shape body composition, physical fitness, physical activity, motor development and lifestyle. She has been involved in projects at Portugal and Cape Verde. She was invited by international peer-reviewed journals to be a reviewer. She has vital skills in biostatistics, namely in multilevel model using SPSS, Stata and Supermix.
Fábio Flôres; Ricardo Drews; Vanessa Santos; Ana Reyes; Nuno Casanova; Priscila Cardozo. (2025). Association Between Motor Competence and Response Time in Portuguese Youth. Journal of Motor Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2025.2563878
Fábio Flôres; André Silva; Renata Willig; Ana Reyes; Joana Serpa; Priscila Marconcin; Fernando Vieira; Denise Soares; Nuno Casanova. (2024). Exergames as an Effective Alternative to Real Environmental Tennis Training for Adolescents. Sports. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4663/12/6/168
Saraiva Flôres, Fábio; Paschoal Soares, Denise; Willig, Renata M.; Reyes, Ana; Silva, Ana Filipa. (2024). Mastering movement: A Cross-sectional investigation of motor competence in children and adolescents engaged in sports. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304524
Ana Reyes; Raquel Chaves; olga vasconcelos; Sara Pereira; Go Tani; David Stodden; Donald Hedeker; José Maia; Adam Baxter-Jones. (2023). Modeling the Dynamics of Children’s Musculoskeletal Fitness. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20042938
SARA PEREIRA; ANA CAROLINA REYES; RAQUEL CHAVES; CARLA SANTOS; OLGA VASCONCELOS; GO TANI; PETER T. KATZMARZYK; ADAM BAXTER-JONES; JOSÉ MAIA. (2022). Correlates of the Physical Activity Decline during Childhood. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/mss.0000000000003013
Ana Carolina Reyes; Raquel Chaves; Adam D G Baxter-Jones; Olga Vasconcelos; Lisa M Barnett; Go Tani; Donald Hedeker; José Maia. (2019). Modelling the dynamics of children’s gross motor coordination. Journal of Sports Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2019.1626570
Ana Reyes; Raquel Chaves; Adam Baxter-Jones; olga vasconcelos; Go Tani; José Maia. (2019). Modelling the dynamics of children growth: The Vouzela study on growth, motor development and cognition. Revista Portuguesa de Ciências do Desporto. http://dx.doi.org/10.5628/rpcd.19.03.14
Marcos Santos; Adam Baxter-Jones; Ana C. Reyes; Duarte Freitas; Rafael dos Santos Henrique; Raquel N. Chaves; Alcibíades Bustamante; et al. (2019). Are there gross motor coordination spurts during mid-childhood?. American Journal of Human Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23251
Ana Carolina Reyes; Raquel Chaves; Adam D. G. Baxter-Jones; Olga Vasconcelos; Go Tani; José Maia. (2018). A mixed-longitudinal study of children’s growth, motor development and cognition. Design, methods and baseline results on sex-differences. Annals of Human Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F03014460.2018.1511828
Carla Santos; Ana Carolina Reyes; Marcos André Moura dos Santos; Sara Pereira; Thayse Natacha Gomes; Go Tani; Olga Vasconcelos; et al. (2018). A multilevel analysis of individual- and school-level correlates of physical fitness in children. Annals of Human Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F03014460.2018.1549684
Sara Pereira; Ana Reyes; Marcos A. Moura-Dos-Santos; Carla Santos; Thayse N. Gomes; Go Tani; Olga Vasconcelos; et al. (2018). Why are children different in their moderate-to-vigorous physical activity levels? A multilevel analysis. Jornal de Pediatria. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jped.2018.10.013
M. A. M. dos Santos; A. M. Nevill; R. Buranarugsa; S. Pereira; T. N. Q. F. Gomes; A. Reyes; L. M. Barnett; J. A. R. Maia. (2018). Modeling children's development in gross motor coordination reveals key modifiable determinants. An allometric approach. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fsms.13061
Luciana Krauss Rezende; Aline Bernardes Souza; Reyes, Ana Carolina ; Paula Cristina Santos Rodrigues; Maria Olga Fernandes Vasconcelos; Silvana Maria Blascovi-Assis. (2016). Proficiency and manual asymmetry in young people with trisomy 21 in two dexterity tasks.. Millenium. https://revistas.rcaap.pt/millenium/article/view/9623/6956
