Welcome at the Assistant Professorship of Exercise, Nutrition and Health!
Our overarching goal is to understand the interactions between diet and exercise and how we can use this knowledge to improve human health and performance. We are particularly interested in the multiple pathways how exercise affects energy balance, and how acute and chronic under- or overeating impact the regulation of body weight, body composition, metabolism, and musculoskeletal health.
News
On Saturday, May 17th, 2025, our professorship took part in the OSM Congress 2025 organized by the Bavarian Olympic Training Center (OSP Bayern) at Munich’s Olympic Park. Under the theme "Mythbuster Sports Nutrition," Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler and Maja Morell led a dedicated session in which five…
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Elizabete Laivina has been part of our team since 2022, initially joining as a research intern. She completed her Master's thesis on the acute effects of low-carbohydrate versus standard diets on postprandial glucose responses in young adults and supported various projects as a student assistant…
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Dr. Paulina Wasserfurth, Dr. Robin Halioua, Désirée Toepffer, Dr. Malte Christian Claussen, and Prof. Dr. Karsten Koehler have published a new study examining the suitability of the Low Energy Availability in Females Questionnaire (LEAF-Q) and the Brief Eating Disorder in Athletes Questionnaire…
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The Associate Professorship of Exercise, Nutrition, and Health congratulates Dr. Christoph Hoechsmann on his successful habilitation. With this outstanding achievement, Dr. Höchsmann reaches an important milestone in his academic career, recognizing his expertise and dedication to research and…
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From December 2nd to December 6th, Dr. Paulina Wasserfurth and Helena Engel visited Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, upon invitation. During their visit, they delivered a lecture on "Energy Balance and Energy Availability in Athletes" and conducted a seminar on "Practical Aspects of…
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Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Karsten Koehler, our PhD-student Christina Glasbrenner explored how machine learning models can predict the success of calorie-restricted diets. The results, published in the “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition”, are based on data from the American CALERIETM-2…
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From October 16 to 18, 2024, our working group participated in the 40th Congress of the German Obesity Society (DAG) in Cologne, which was held under the motto “Shaping Change – Finding Solutions.” The event attracted numerous experts and researchers who exchanged information on current developments…
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On September 1, 2024, Dr. Paulina Wasserfurth-Grzybowska was honored with second place in the "FeMale" Research Award for her outstanding research in the field of female athlete health. Her work focuses on the prevention of chronic energy deficiency and significantly contributes to promoting the…
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Dr. Paulina Wasserfurth, Désirée Toepffer, and Prof. Dr. Karsten Koehler, together with Dr. Robin Halioua and Dr. Malte Christian Claussen, recently published a study investigating the relationship between low energy availability (LEA), depression, and eating disorders in female athletes.
LEA…
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From July 2 to 5, 2024, the 29th Annual Congress of the European College of Sports Science (ECSS) took place in Glasgow hosted by the University of the West of Scotland. Under the motto “Enhancing Health, Performance, and Community Sport,” around 3000 sports scientists gathered to share and discuss…
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