Research profile

Profile

As a trained psychologist (University of Cologne and Konstanz), I was always fascinated by the influence of cognitive factors on sports performance, especially in children at a young age. In my research, I am now focusing on how cognitive and motor processes interact and develop during childhood, how they change with experience and whether they can predict future sports expertise. 

Projects

In my current projects, I want to better understand the interplay of sport specific and general cognitive processes and the relation to expertise in soccer, the interplay of cognitive and motor processes in climbing from a developmental perspective. Therefore, I conduct experiments, cross-sectional age comparisons, longitudinal and training studies combining cognitive and motor (vicon) measures.

DFG SPP 2134 "The Active Self" (RA-940/21-1):

Climbing to yourself: A developmental embodied cognition perspective on the relation between the minimal self and sensorimotor and cognitive skills

Method expertise

• questionnaire construction and validation

• multivariate statistics

• linear mixed models

• longitudinal data sets

• objective fitness data (e.g. accelerometer)

Teaching profile

Motor learning and development (lecture)

Sportpsychology (seminar, asp curriculum)

• Sport psychological training
  

Health Psychology

• Why goog intentions are not enough: models and interventions for health behavior change

Managing diversity

• Performing sport with special needs