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.
The FOR5795 HyperMet Consortium will organise, together with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, a symposium focusing on new strategies against obesity and diabetes. The symposium will take place on 29th of September 2026, 04:00 – 06:00 h p.m. We will welcome you in the HS-1 lecture hall at…
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Physical activity and exposure to cold are two distinct physiological stimuli that influence energy metabolism via shared signalling pathways. Both endurance and strength training activate the sympathetic nervous system and – depending on the intensity and type of exercise – increase the release of…
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The first virtual DGMet & HyperMet DFG Exercise Metabolomics Symposium brought together researchers interested in metabolomics and exercise biology. The symposium featured talks by Prof. Cora Weigert (University Hospital Tübingen), Dirk Weber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), and Tim Havers (IST…
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Our PhD student David Camargo is investigating the prediction of energy expenditure and blood lactate levels using modern wearable technologies. In his first publication, he presents findings from the EARnergy study, which we recently published in Scientific Reports.
Portable devices are…
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The 2026 European College of Sport Science (ECSS) Congress in Lausanne provided an excellent opportunity to showcase the breadth of research from the Exercise Biology group at the Technical University of Munich and the emerging activities of the DFG Research Unit HyperMet. Although HyperMet has been…
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