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Staff members with discipline Sport Sciences

Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.

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Musculoskeletal disorders in Sports-Orthopaedics
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Associate Professor
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Resilience, Training monitoring, Injury prevention, Complex Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis, Talent development

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PhD
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Sport Performance Optimization, Injury prevention, Overtraining, Monitoring training, Quantifying training load, Teamsport physiology, Stress-Recovery balance, Testing, Notational Analyses, Time-motion Analyses.
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Associate Professor
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I am intrigued by the possibilities for learning and development that engaging in joint action can offer, which I study from a dynamical systems perspective. I investigate the process of discovering possibilities for action (affordances) within a social... read more
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Assistant Professor
arthroscopic surgery / sports and exercise medicine / overuse injuries
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Professor of clinical sports medicine
Field / Discipline
Talent identification and development in youth sports
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Lecturer
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Dr. Carlo Ferri Marini is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Movement Sciences of the University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen. Before obtaining his PhD cum Laude at the University of Urbino, he studied at the... read more
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Assistant Professor
Field / Discipline
talent development, sport psychology, complex systems, psychological momentum, resilience
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Professor Talent Development, with a special focus on the sport and performance context
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motor development / physical activity and cognition / physical activity and health / development of movement and lifestyle interventions / children and adolescents
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Associate Professor
Human Movement Sciences: Movement, Aging and Health
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Assistant Professor
Talent research in sports
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Researcher / Lecturer
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Programme leader Sport Sciences Ma and Human Movement Sciences Ma of the Department of Human Movement Sciences, Leading Academic Teacher of the UMCG, coordinator of the Student Workplace, and project manager of the innovation projects in the Academic... read more
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Programme leader Sport Sciences Ma and Human Movement Sciences Ma, & Leading Academic Teacher UMCG
Applied microeconometrics, Insurance economics, Non-life insurance models, Economics and econometrics of sports
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Professor by special appointment, sports economics (Mulierinstituut)
Sports, Performance, Training and Testing, Innovation
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Professor Sport Sciences and Head of Department Human Movement Sciences
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Field / Discipline
Sportpsychology, Resilience, Within-Person Dynamics, Science of the Individual, Ergodicity, Ecological Momentary Assessment, Monitoring, Time Series Analysis, Dynamical Networks, Nonverbal Behavior, Emotions
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PhD Student Sportpsychology
Monitoring performance of endurance athletes
General human physiology
Exercise physiology
CPET testing
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Lecturer in human physiology
Field / Discipline
(perceptuo-)motor control and coordination, laterality, interpersonal coordination, joint action in sports, systems dynamics

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My research focusses on promotion of active and healthy aging through lifestyle in different settings and populations; ranging from prevention in the hospital to community engagement. I combine different research approaches (health, environmental, and... read more
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Adjunct Professor, Rosalind Franklin Fellow, Human Movement Sciences
Sport science, sportpsychology, talent development, injury prevention, motor learning
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PhD Student
Field / Discipline
Perception-action, perceptual-motor development, physical activity and cognition in children
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Assistant Professor
Motor learning
Biomechanics
Cyclic upper body exercise
Adapted sports
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Human Movement Sciences: Assistant Professor
Sport, learning and performance; talent development; sport and cognition
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Head of department / Professor
Human Movement Sciences, Rehabilitation and Functional Recovery; restoration of mobility in persons with a spinal cord injury; wheeled mobility (wheelchair & handbike propulsion and technology); optimisation of cyclic exercise (upper body as well as... read more
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Professor Human Movement, Rehabilitation & Functional Recovery
Key words: public health, lifestyle medicine, physical activity, environmental exposure, mental health, children development, data science. Lu Yang holds a Bachelor of Medicine and a Master of Public Health from Nanjing Medical University, focusing on... read more
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PhD student
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Associate Professor
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