Welcome at the Associate 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
In the middle of November, our working group organized a mini-symposium on "Extremes of Human Energy Balance: Connecting the Dots between Energy Surplus and Deficiency". In addition to the two hosts, Dr. Eimear Dolan from the University of Sao Paolo and Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler, three more speakers…
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On Monday, November 21, 2022, our group will host a mini-symposium entitled "Extremes of Human Energy Balance: Connecting the Dots between Energy Surplus and Deficiency". The event will be co-hosted by Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler and Dr. Eimear Dolan from the University of Sao Paolo and is part of…
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From muscle protein synthesis to skeletal muscle glycogen and low energy availability: an ongoing career in sports nutrition research
On Monday, July 11, 2022, Dr. Jose Areta from Liverpool John Moores University (UK) will present an overview of his research in sports nutrition. As a lecturer in…
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At this year's annual meeting of the American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM) in San Diego from May 31 - June 3 (https://www.acsm.org/annual-meeting/annual-home), our team was represented with a total of three talks.
The annual congress of the American College of Sport Medicine always presents the…
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Since April, our team has grown by four new interns. In addition, a new student assistant joined our team in May. Welcome to the team Viktoriia Dudko, Fiona Hieninger, Max Buchner, Niklas Mohr & Julian Brummer.
Viktoriia Dudko completed her Bachelor's degree in Nutrtitional Sciences at the TUM…
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In February, Alexandra Martin's latest research paper, "Tissue losses and metabolic adaptations both contribute to the reduction in resting metabolic rate following weight loss," was published in the International Journal of Obesity . She investigated the contribution of changes in energy-consuming…
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In early October, the latest article by Chaise Murphy, until recently a PhD student in our group, and Prof. Karsten Köhler was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. The results of the article titled "Energy deficiency impairs resistance training gains in lean mass…
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Our team is continuing to grow – we are happy to welcome Dr. Christoph Höchsmann to the professorship.
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For the start of the EIT study project "STOP MetSyn" in November our team grows again by the two health coaches Luna Schumacher and Johannes Soulaiman.
The project "STOP MetSyn" aims towards integrating healthier nutrition as well as more exercise into the everyday life of the study participants in…
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Congratulations to our PhD student, Chaise Murphy, for passing his PhD exam with excellence and for his new position as a lecturer at Emporia State University in Kansas, USA.
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