Welcome at the Associate Professorship of Exercise Biology!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
Our aim to discover mechanisms by which exercise improves our performance, fitness and health!
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Our strategy: Many athletic performances are critically dependent on metabolic function, and physical training is effective in preventing and treating metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and obesity. The Exercise Biology group at the TU Munich therefore aims to investigate topics related to sports and metabolism often with disease relevance. We often use state-of-the-art methods of metabolic research such as arteriovenous metabolomics analyses and metabolic flux analyses as well as methods of molecular sports physiology. Our main goal with this strategy is to mechanistically answer important unanswered questions in the field. We want to discover new phenomena that help athletes optimize their performance, help patients recover, and ultimately help all people who want to stay fit and healthy for a long time.
Energy metabolism rapidly matches ATP production to ATP demand, even during abrupt transitions such as exercise onset. In 1984, Alois Mader proposed a mechanistic model describing this regulation through 33 coupled differential equations linking oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis, and the…
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The German Congress of Science in Sports Medicine, organised by the Scientific Board of the German Society of Sports Medicine and Prevention (DGSP), took place in Tübingen from September 23–26. The congress marked the beginning of a new chapter for German sports medicine and exercise science,…
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Prof. Henning Wackerhage featured in the NDR podcast series “Synapsen” discussing current research on skeletal muscle as a metabolic organ and its role in human health. In the episode “Muskeln: Unterschätzte Superkraft für die Gesundheit”, he explains how recent findings are changing the…
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One thing after another: just two weeks ago, Alexander Braunsperger-Wasserfurth completed his PhD at the TUM School of Medicine and Health, and now his next paper is already being published. The paper published today is based on a training intervention study on sport and adipose tissue, which was…
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This week, Alexander Braunsperger-Wasserfurth successfully completed his PhD at the TUM School of Medicine and Health. His doctoral research also gave rise to the review on exercise and adipose tissue published today. The publication forms part of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) project TRR…
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