Performance

Competitive sport is an important part of our society. The research line of competitive sports combines interdisciplinary studies on the biopsychosocial conditions of performance and health maintenance of athletes. The focus is on different levels of performance, ranging from upper amateur sport to junior performance sport and top-class sport.


Applied Sport Psychology in Performance Sport

 

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Cognitive Performance Factors in Sport Games

 

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CoSmo-S: Covid-19 in elite sports - A multicentered cohort study

Title:
CoSmo-S: Covid-19 in elite sports - A multicentered cohort study

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Abteilung Sportmedizin, Medizinische Universitätsklinik Tübingen
  • DOSB-lizensierte Untersuchungszentren in Deutschland
  • Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Statistik und Epidemiologie TU München (PD Dr. Haller)
  • Institut für Angewandte Gesundheitsförderung und Bewegungsmedizin, Prof. Dr. Kai Röcker, Hochschule Furtwangen
  • Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH, Potsdam

Funding:
Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft

Period:
2020-2023

Contact Prof. Dr. Andreas Nieß  

 

Data-Driven (Tactical) Performance Analysis in Football

 

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DEPOT - Developmental pathways of gifted individuals in sports, music, and mathematics

Title:
Developmental pathways of gifted individuals in sports, music, and mathematics – a biographical analysis

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Institute of Sport Science (Thiel, John)
  • LEAD Graduate School and Research Network

Funding:
Own funding

Period:
2018 - 2022

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Enhancement of movements efficiency in elite athletes

Title:
Enhancement of motor learning and movements efficiency in elite athletes

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Baden-Württemberg Sports Association (Landessportverband Baden-Württemberg, LSV)
  • Department Sports Medicine, Medical Clinic at University of Tübingen
  • National Training Center for Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Training Base, Stuttgart

Funding:
Baden-Württemberg Sports Association (Landessportverband Baden-Württemberg, LSV) / German Olympic Sports Association (Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund, DOSB)

Period:
2017 - 2021

Contact Prof. Dr. von Laßberg  

 

FideliS: Figurations of painkiller consumption in elite handball – Modulation patterns and interdependence networks

Title:
FideliS: Figurations of painkiller consumption in elite handball – Modulation patterns and interdependence networks

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Institute of Sport Science (Thiel, John, Bursik, Klein)
  • Department of Sports medicine, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine (Burgstahler)
  • PH Schwäbisch Gmünd (Mayer)
  • Universität Göttingen (Kühnle)
  • Deutscher Handballbund (DHB)
  • Federal Institute for Sport Science (BISp)

Funding:
BISp (2021-2024)

Period:
2021 - 2024

Contact Prof. Dr. Ansgar Thiel  

 

indi-miR - miRNA patterns and "mini metabolomics" as potential biomarkers for individual effects in junior competitive athletes in middle- and long-distance running

Honesty, fair play and the demand for sport

Title:
Honesty, fair play and the demand for sport

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Institute of Sports Science (Pawlowski)
  • Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (Utz)

Funding:
Internal funds (IfS und Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien)

Period:
2018 - 2021

Contact Prof. Dr. Tim Pawlowski 

 

KIRun - Use of artificial intelligence for training control in running sports

Title:
KIRun - Use of artificial intelligence for autonomous recognition analysis of the feeling state from audio, exercise and biomechanical data

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Abteilung Sportmedizin, Medizinische Universitätsklinik (Krauß/Dieter/Schneeweiß)
  • HB Technologies AG (Tübingen)
  • Lehrstuhl für Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing an der Universität Augsburg (Prof. Schuller)

Funding:
Zentrale Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM) des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie

Period:
2019-2021

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Contact Prof. Dr. Krauß  

Modelling behavioral responses to emotional cues in sports – A Bayesian approach

Title:
Modelling behavioral responses to emotional cues in sports – A Bayesian approach

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Institute of Sports Science (Pawlowski)
  • Method Center, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (Kelava)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for the Sciences"

Funding:
German Research Foundation (DFG): EXC number 2064/1, Project number 390727645

Period:
2020 - 2024

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Contact Prof. Dr. Tim Pawlowski 

 

Mountain bike specific performance diagnostics and training control

Title:
Comparison of two different training interventions on cycling performance in competitive young XCO athletes: a randomized controlled trial

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Abteilung Sportmedizin, Medizinische Universitätsklinik (Krauß/Schneeweiß)
  • Bund Deutsche Radfahrer e. V.

Funding:
Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft

Period:
2016-2021

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Contact Prof. Dr. Krauß  
Contact Patrick Schneeweiß  

 

Practice Design and Coaching in Performance Sport

 

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Prä.-HiT: Evaluation of predictors of the individual heat tolerance in triathlon

Title:
Prä.-HiT: Evaluation of predictors of the individual heat tolerance in triathlon

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Abteilung Sportmedizin, Medizinische Universitätsklinik Tübingen
  • Thaiss Lab, Perelman School of Medicine der University of Pennsylvania

Funding:
Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft

Period:
2021-2023

Contact Prof. Dr. Andreas Nieß  

 

Talent Identification and Development in (Performance) Sport

 

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Selected past projects

Competitive Balance in Major League Soccer

Title:
Competitive Balance in Major League Soccer

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Institute of Sports Science (Pawlowski)

Funding:
Major League Soccer, L.L.C. (MLS)

Period:
2013

Contact Prof. Dr. Tim Pawlowski 

 

GOAL: The German Young Olympic Athletes' Lifestyle and Health Management Study

The determinants of demand for overseas soccer broadcasts in the USA

Title:
The determinants of demand for overseas soccer broadcasts in the USA

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Institute of Sports Science (Nalbantis, Pawlowski)

Funding:
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)

Period:
2015 - 2016

Contact Dr. Georgios Nalbantis 
Contact Prof. Dr. Tim Pawlowski 

 

The fans' view on competitive balance

Title:
The fans' view on competitive balance

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Institute of Sports Science (Pawlowski)

Funding:
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)

Period:
2011 - 2012

Contact Prof. Dr. Tim Pawlowski 

 

The fiscal political importance of sports in Germany

Title:
The fiscal political importance of sports in Germany

Institutions/Collaborators:

  • Institut für Sportwissenschaft (Pawlowski)
  • German Sport University (Breuer)

Funding:
Federal Ministry of Finance: Project number fe32/09

Period:
2009 - 2011

Contact Prof. Dr. Tim Pawlowski