Profile

Professional career

• since 03/2008
  Head of the Institute | University Leipzig | Faculty of Sport ScienceInstitute of Movement and Trainings Science in Sport II | Professor for Movement and Training Science in Sport
• 12/2009 - 12/2020
  Honorary appointment as Visiting Professor at the Shanghai University of Sports | Shanghai | PR China
• 12/2009 - 12/2017
  Honorary appointment as Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Research Institute of Sport Science | Shanghai | PR China
• 11/2000 - 03/2008
  Technical University Munich | Faculty of Sport Science | Department of Theory and Practice in Sports | Professor for Theory and Practice in Sports
• 06/2006 - 12/2009
  Honorary appointment as Visiting Professor at the Northern University of Tai Yuan | Tai Yuan | PR China
• 06/2004 - 12/2007
  Honorary appointment as Visiting Professor at the Tongji University of Shanghai | Shanghai | PR China
• 08/2003 - 12/2006
  Honorary appointment as Visiting Professor at the University of Salzburg | Salzburg | Austria
• 03/2002 - 12/2013
  Honorary appointment as Visiting Professor at the Tsinghua University | Beijing | PR China
• 01/1996 - 10/2000
  Academic Adivisor | German Sport University Cologne | Institute of Training and Movement Science | Provisional Head of the Institute of Training and Movement Science
• 01/1994 - 12/1995
  Senior Research Fellow | German Sport University Cologne | Institute of Training and Movement Science | Institut for Cardiology and Sports Medicine
• 04/1990 - 12/1993
  Academic Assistant | German Sport University Cologne | Institut for Cardiology and Sports Medicine | Institute of Training and Movement Science
• 08/1986 - 03/1990
  Academic Assistant | University Bonn | Institute for Sportscience and Sport | Head of the Watersport- and Track and Field department
• 04/1981 - 03/1986
  Senior Research Fellow | University Bonn | Institute for Sportscience and Sport | Head of the Watersportdepartment
• 09/1979 - 04/1981
  Student trainee

Education

• 10/1973 - 04/1979
  University Bonn | Studies in Biology and Sport Science

Panel Memberships

• since 07/2016
  Member of the Korean Society for Exercise Physiology
• since 01/2016
  Foreign expert and member of the International Peer Review Experts Committee of Tsinghua University | Beijing | PR China
• since 09/2015
  Editorial Board Member Ceska Kinantropolgie
• 09/2015 - 01/2018
  Head of the Assignment Council for Elite Sport at the University of Leipzig
• since 01/2015
  Examination Board Member | Faculty of Sport Science
• 09/2010 - 09/2018
  Member of the Assignment Council for Professorships of the University of Leipzig
• since 10/2009
  Faculty Council Member | Faculty of Sport Science
• since 01/2008
  Editorial Board Member of the Leipziger Sportwissenschaftliche Beiträge
• 01/2006 - 12/2020
  Reviewer for the Federal Institute for Sport Science (BISp) for Training & Movement Science, Exercise Physiology, equipment in sport & technology
• 01/2006 - 12/2014
  Reviewer for German Science Foundation (DFG) for Training Science and Exercise Physiology
• since 02/2002
  Editorial Board Member Revista Antioqueña de Medicina Deportiva
• since 06/1997
  Editorial Board Member of The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness

• Development/evaluation of training/competition-accompanying metabolic studies in (endurance) disciplines in the laboratory/field.
• Creation of sport-specific, physiologically oriented requirement/competition profiles in sports/disciplines.
• Cross-sectional/longitudinal examinations of performance physiology/hematology under natural hypoxia conditions.
• Investigations on transverse/longitudinal performance developments/adaptation phenomena in sports.
• Development of categorization schemes based on physiological classification criteria for recording sport-specific demands.
• Creation of physiologically oriented framework requirements/standard conditions for athletes.
• Creation/development of databases to document the content in the training process.
• Development of computer-aided models to expand the interpretations in performance diagnostic examination procedures.
• Investigations of load design/tolerance or overtraining.
• Development of measurement/control procedures for training practice.
• Evaluation of measuring/control devices for industry (spirometry systems, heart rate sensors, speedometers, calibration devices, etc.measuring devices (stationary and mobile lactate and hematology devices) for metabolic physiological parameters in the context of validity studies).
• Investigations of nutritional substitutes on the performance/resilience as well as related aspects of recovery/regeneration.

Lectures/seminars in the field

"General basics of training and movement science",

"Diagnostics, monitorng and control of athletic performance",

"Basics of energy metabolism",

"Performance diagnostics",

"Performance physiology & nutrition",

"Methods and methodology",

"Theory of sports",

"Sports biology".

All lectures are also offered in German.