Institute of Sport Science

Team ISPW

Research

  • Functionality of peripheral perception in sport
  • Perception and decision-making in sports games
  • Attention mechanisms (including distributed attention)
  • Visual perception and hazard detection when driving a car
  • Wayfinding and cognition

Publications

Publication Year Type

Teaching

  • Teaching and learning movements
  • Human Powered Motion (HPM), mountain biking

Curriculum vitae

Professional career
Since 2024 SNSF Assistant Professor (Starting Grant) at the Institute of Sport Science at the University of Bern
2022-2024 Senior Researcher, Chair of Cognition Research, ETH Zurich
2021-2022 Advanced Postdoc at the Institute of Sport Science at the University of Bern
2017-2020  Assistant I (post doctoral fellow) at the Institute of Sport Science of the University of Bern
2019  Research stay at the School of Psychology, University of Sydney (Australia) with Prof. Dr. Alex Holcombe
2018  Research stay at the Perception, Cognition, & Expertise Laboratory of the University of Utah with Prof. Dr. Mark Williams
 Research stay at the Visual Performance & Oculomotor Mobility Lab of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, with Prof. Dr. Miriam Spering
2013-2017  Assistant III (PhD) at the Institute of Sport Science of the University of Bern
2013
  Research stay at the Department of Life Sciences at Brunel University, London, with Prof. Dr. Mark Williams
2012-2013  Student assistant at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ
Diplomas and qualifications
2024 CAS Leadership
2017
 Doctorate in sport science (summa cum laude)
2017 CAS University teaching
2013
 Master of Science in Sport Science
2011
 Bachelor of Arts in Sport Science
2007
 General higher education entrance qualification (Abitur)
Awards and calls
2021 Call to W1 professorship at the Institute of Sports Science and Movement Pedagogy at the Technical University of Braunschweig (Prima Loco)
2019 Karl-Feige-Prize (dissertation prize) of the Association for Sport Psychology (ASP)
2019 Dissertation Prize of the Sport Scientific Society of Switzerland (SGS)
2017
 Reinhard-Daugs-Förderpreis of the dvs section sport motor skills
2016
 Young-Investigator-Award  of the Sport Scientific Society of Switzerland (SGS) for the supervised Master thesis of Nicole Spörri (ETH Zurich)

Further activities

  • Reviewer for scientific journals (Nature - Scientific Reports; Applied Cognitive Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport; Acta Psychologica; Brain Sciences; Heliyon; German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; i-Perception; PeerJ; Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology; Journal of Vision; Journal of Sports Sciences; Cognition and Emotion; International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology; Psychology of Sport and Exercise; Human Movement Science)
  • Reviewer for research organisations: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Further expertising activities:
    • "Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Dance Science"
    • External reviewer Master's thesis by Prof Dr Nicola Hodges (Motor Skills Lab, University of British Columbia, Canada)
  • Lecturer:
    • Continuing education programme: "Advanced studies of Sport Psychology (DAS)"
    • Guest lectures at the University of Basel (Lecture: "Technical Aspects of Human Movement Science")