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 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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Maja Morell has been supporting our team since the end of 2023. After her Bachelor's degree in Sports Science at the Technical University of Munich from 2018 to 2021, she completed further studies in Life Sciences Nutritional Sciences at TUM and at the “Universita degli studi di Camerino” as part of…
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Dr. Paulina Wasserfurth, Dr. Frank Huelsemann, and Prof. Dr. Karsten Koehler just recently published their newest article titled “Changes in urinary stable nitrogen isotope ratios during controlled short-term energy deficit: a proof-of-principle analysis.”.
The study aimed to understand how an…
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Lucas Thurnherr was rewarded with the poster prize at this year's annual academic celebration for his poster entitled "Nutrition Knowledge of German Elite Athletes".
Proper nutrition is crucial for elite athletes, but do they put theoretical sports nutrition guidelines into practice? This question…
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On November 28th, the Future++ team presented the development and key outcomes of the project 'Sports and Social Inclusion: Future for Children FUTURE++' during the Final Conference held at the FCBarcelona 1998 Auditorium in Barcelona.
Fueled by Erasmus+ funding, the Future++ project aimed to…
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From November 9th to 10th, 2023, the GEST:23 conference of the German Association of Sport Science (dvs) section Training sciences took place at the German Sport University Cologne. This year's symposium title was "Optimizing Training in Sports, Exercise, and Health."
The professorship of Exercise,…
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Dr. Christoph Höchsmann recently published a research article titled “Initial weight loss and early intervention adherence predict long-term weight loss during the Promoting Successful Weight Loss in Primary Care in Louisiana lifestyle intervention”.
This secondary analysis of data from the…
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In collaboration with Eimear Dolan, José Areta, Daniel P. Longman and Herman Pontzer, Karsten Köhler Köhler published the article "Energy constraint and compensation: Insights from endurance athletes". The review was conducted in association with the research symposium "Extremes of Energy Balance",…
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