Dr. Robert Hickner is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology with a broad research agenda investigating how exercise and nutrition affect the regulation of blood flow and metabolism in peripheral tissues to improve cardiometabolic disease risk across the lifespan.

Dr. Hickner received B.S and M.S. degrees in Biology from Indiana University and Ball State University, respectively, as well as a Ph.D. in Physiology from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Washington University School of Medicine.