Training & Exercise Science staff

Office hours: mon. 10.30 - 11.30 h

ORCID-ID

• 0000-0002-8210-1299

Short biography

• Diploma in sports studies in Bochum (1993 - 1999)
• Additional studies in prevention and rehabilitation through sports at the Ruhr-University Bochum, training as a sports therapist (1999 - 2000)
• Part-time employment in teaching at the St. Jacobus Realschule Breckerfeld (2001 - 2009)
• Freelance work as lecturer for physiotherapy at the official training center for medicine and therapy in Recklinghausen (2000 - 2012)
• Doctorate with the topic: Training control of the recreational runner with special consideration of the heart rate (2011)
• Research assistant at the Chair of Exercise Science at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Head of ZeDI (Center for Diagnostics and Intervention in Sports) (since 2009)

Focus of work

• Teaching activity
  Organization of centralized and decentralized examinations
  Planning and implementation of diagnostics with state and national associations at home and abroad
  Administrative tasks in cooperation with university sports, faculty and university administration
  Performance diagnostics in triathlon, tennis, soccer, cycling, bobsleigh, beach volleyball
  Planning and implementation of training camps at home and abroad

Research focus

• Endurance sports (including cardio drift)
• Training control

Additional qualifications

• Sports therapist
• Back training instructor
• Heart sports group leader
• Medical Training Therapy (MTT)
• A-License athletics
• B-License Football

Office hours mo. - fr., please enquire in advance by telephone or E-Mail

Office hours for students: mo. 11 - 13 h and mi. 11 - 13 h. Please arrange exceptions in advance by telephone or E-Mail

Office hours: by appointment

Short biography

• Studies of Sports Science at the Ruhr-University Bochum (B. Sc. 2015-2019, M. Sc. 2019-2021)
• Student assistant at the Chair of Exercise Science (2017 - 2019)
• Research assistant at the BG Clinic Duisburg (2018 - 2019)
• Research assistant at the Chair of Exercise Science (2019 - 2021)
• Lab-Exchange in Sevilla on the topic of Force-Velocity-Based Training (2020)
• Athletic trainer in youth basketball (2019 - 2021) and women's basketball (2020 - current)
• Athletic trainer youth Borussia Dortmund (2021 - current)
• Research assistant at the chair of training science (since 2021)

Focus of work

• Management Project German Tennis Federation Fitness Test
• Velocity-based strength training

Current projects

• Test-Retest reliability and validation of the horizontal squat jump with a linear velocity transducer

• Katharina Raasch, research assistant (Tel. +49 234 32-22965, Raum 1.085, office hours n. V.)
• Leonie Göbe, research assistant (Tel. +49 234 32-25969, Raum 1.079, office hours n. V.)
• Felix Hammes, student assistant (Tel. +49 234 32-22965, Raum 1.085, office hours n. V.)
• Lara Kamp, student assistant (Tel. +49 234 32-22965, Raum 1.085, office hours n. V.)
• Valentin Wieczorek, student assistant (Tel. +49 234 32-22965, Raum 1.085, office hours n. V.)
• Jan-Luka Weis, student assistant (Tel. +49 234 32-22965, Raum 1.085, office hours n. V.)

Office hours: Tues. 13 - 14 h

Publication list

ORCID-ID

• 0000-0001-9807-2755

Short biography

• Diploma in sports and biology (1st state examination, Sek I and II) in Cologne (1980-1988).
• Doctorate in 1992 at the German Sport University in Cologne in the subject of training and movement theory.
• Habilitation 1997 at the German Sport University Cologne. Venia legendi: "Sports science with special reference to training theory". Habilitation thesis: "Energy metabolism in tennis: a training science analysis with practical recommendations for competitive and amateur sport".
• University lecturer (C 2) and scientific assistant (C 1) under Prof. Dr. Karl Weber at the Institute for Sports Games at the German Sport University Cologne (1992-2002)
• Acquisition of the Trainer A Licence of the German Tennis Federation (1993)
• University professor (W3) and chair of training science at the Faculty of Sports Science at the Ruhr University Bochum (since 2003)

Main focus of work

• Performance physiology in sports games
• Performance diagnostics and training management
• Regeneration management and monitoring in elite sport
• Promotion of young athletes and talent diagnostics
• Performance physiology in childhood and adolescence
• Training and regeneration in middle and old age
• Application research in tennis, badminton and football
• Energy metabolism and nutritional supplementation
• Endurance and speed training
• Training science in recreational sports

Current projects

• Regeneration management and monitoring of stress and recovery in competitive sports practice (WVL project REGman)
• Diagnostics and control of physical and motor development in junior competitive tennis (DTB project)
• Differential analyses of aerobic, anaerobic-alactacidic and anaerobic-lactacidic energy metabolism in competitive play (project with the World Badminton Federation, WBF)
• Training forms in high performance badminton: systematic analysis of load and stress under variation of load normatives (BISp project with the German Badminton Association, DBV)
• Optical pulse measurement using Polar OH1 or Verity Sense (BISp service project with the German Swimming Association)
• Age-specific aspects of training and regeneration (Ageing Athletes Study)
• Speed and the rapid change of direction in sports games
• Evaluation of innovative training aids and training devices (e.g. assisted versus resisted training with the 1080 Motion)

Leadership functions and committee work

• President Elect of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS)
• Dean of the Faculty of Sport Science at the Ruhr University Bochum (2013-2017)
• Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sport Science at the Ruhr University Bochum (2006-2013)
• Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Sport Science at the Ruhr University Bochum
• Congress President: ECSS Congress Metropolis Ruhr 2017
• Member of the Speaker's Council of the DVS Training Science Section (2011-2017)
• Speaker for Sports Science in the German Tennis Federation (2009-2017)
• Head of the WVL project Regeneration Management in Elite Sports (REGman)
• Section Editor Natural Sciences - German Journal of Exercise and Sports Research (2017-2020)
• Member of the Senate of the Ruhr University Bochum (2003-2005)
• Consultant for trainer education and further training for various national and international sports associations
• Performance diagnostics and training advice for numerous junior and professional players in competitive tennis
• Head of the B.Sc. study focus "Training and Diagnostics" (since 2018)
• Editor of the journal "TennisSport - Tennis in Theory and Practice" (1989-2005)

Awards and publications

• Toyota Prize winner 1992 at the German Sport University Cologne
• approx. 70 scientific publications listed in PubMed
• 10 monographs and books on training science and sports practice topics
• over 100 book chapters and practice-oriented journal articles
• H-indices: RG 36, Web of Science 24 (July 2021)

Own sport activities

• Competitive tennis at national level (U14 to H60)
  Marathon (13-time finisher, 3:08h) and triathlon (2-time finisher middle distance, M60)