Awards and honours

2025:

  • dvs promotion prize funded by Hofmann-Verlag: Bryan Charbonnet, dissertation "Problemorientierte Talentforschung: zwischen Verständnisstreben und Nutzendenken" [Problem-oriented talent research: between striving for understanding and thinking about benefits]
  • dvs young talent award, 2nd place: Martin Bührer, contribution "Discovering Joy in Exercise – Das FEEL Bewegungsprogramm" [Discovering Joy in Exercise – The FEEL Exercise Programme]
  • Karl-Feige-Prize: Sofia Anzeneder, dissertation "Designing acute physical activity for children’s cognition: Effects of cognitive challenge, bout duration, and positive feedback"
  • Poster prize of the Sport Motor Science Section of the German Association for Sport Science: Christian Vater, Svitlana Pinchuk und Božo Vukojević, contribution "Soccer players use peripheral vision under time pressure"
  • Swiss Society of Sports Science (SGS/4S), dissertation prize, 1st place: Stephan Zahno, dissertation "Kreativität im Sportspiel" [Creativity in sports games]
  • Swiss Society of Sports Science (SGS/4S), dissertation prize, 2nd place: Bryan Charbonnet, dissertation "Problemorientierte Talentforschung: zwischen Verständnisstreben und Nutzendenken" [Problem-oriented talent research: between striving for understanding and thinking about benefits]
  • Swiss Society of Sports Science (SGS/4S), young talent award, 1st place: Raphael Stieger, contribution "Professionalisation and governance in sports organisations: towards an integrated understanding"
  • Swiss Society of Sports Science (SGS/4S), poster prize: Marion Gasser, contribution "Physical Activity Behavior in Swiss Secondary School Students: A Segmented Analysis"

2024:

  • Award for outstanding teaching of the Faculty of Human Sciences: Jürg Schmid
  • Young talent award of the German Psychological Society and the Working Group for Sport Psychology (asp): Stephan Zahno, contribution "Risk Optimization in Action"
  • Distinguished Mentor Award of the Society of Behavioral Medicine: Claudio R. Nigg

2023:

  • Swiss Olympic Science Award: 3rd place: Marc Gürber, poster contribution "VR-Training - Verletzungsprävention und Leistungssteigerung – Evidenz für Fertigkeitstransfer - real zu virtuell" [VR training – injury prevention and performance enhancement – evidence for skill transfer – real to virtual]
  • ISMC young talent award, 1st place category "Basic Science": Stephan Zahno, poster contribution "Risk Optimisation During Ongoing Movements" (Zahno, Beck, Kredel, Klostermann & Hossner)
  • ENYSSP Conference, prize for best short presentation: Merlin Örencik, contribution "A longitudinal study on the stability of psychosocial latent profiles and their association with perceived stress during the COVID-19 pandemic"
  • Swiss Society of Sports Science (SGS/4S), dissertation prize: Vitus Furrer, dissertation "Soziale Partizipation im inklusiven Sportunterricht: Zur Bedeutung von Klassen-, Unterrichts- und Lehrpersonenmerkmalen" [Social participation in inclusive physical education: The importance of class, teaching and teacher characteristics]
  • Swiss Society of Sports Science (SGS/4S), young talent award, 1st place: Sofia Anzeneder, contribution "Designed acute physical activity to benefit primary school children’s cognition: Effects of cognitive challenge, bout duration and positive affect"
  • Swiss Society of Sports Science (SGS/4S), young talent award, 3rd place: Claudia Kubica, contribution "Effects of a training intervention tailored to the menstrual cycle on endurance performance, recovery and well-being in female recreational runners – a randomized-controlled pilot study"

2022:

  • Swiss Olympic Science Award 2022, 1st place: Bryan Charbonnet, contribution "Talentförderung im Kindesalter und der Weg zum Erfolg: Polysportivität oder frühzeitige Spezialisierung? Weder-noch!" [Promoting talent in childhood and the path to success: multi-sport participation or early specialisation? Neither!]
  • Swiss Olympic Science Award 2022, 3rd place: Dino Tartaruga, contribution "Was erwarten Athlet*innen von ihren Trainer*innen?" [What do athletes expect from their coaches?]
  • Young Investigator Award of the FEPSAC, 2nd place: Stephan Zahno, contribution "Creativity in team sports: Enhancing players’ motor skills rather than divergent thinking fosters creative actions"
  • "Die goldene Hand" coaching award from the Working Group for Sports Psychology (asp): Achim Conzelmann
  • Young Researcher Award of the European Association for Sociology of Sport (eass): Matthias Buser, contribution "The role of team structures in social integration in Swiss football clubs: A multilevel analysis"
  • Award for outstanding teaching by young academics of the Faculty of Human Sciences: Sascha Ketelhut
  • Swiss Society of Sports Science (SGS/4S), young talent award, 2nd place: Lars Lenze, contribution "Patterns of leisure-time physical activity in youth as predictors for lifelong activity? A latent profile analysis with retrospective life course data"
  • Swiss Society of Sports Science (SGS/4S), young talent award, 3rd place: Stephan Zahno, contribution "Creativity in elite youth football: Enhancing players’ motor skills rather than a divergent thinking ability fosters creative actions"

2021:

  • Swiss Society of Sports Science (SGS/4S), dissertation prize: Valentin Benzing, dissertation "Acute and Chronic Physical Activity and Executive Functions in Children and Adolescents: Benefits of Exergaming in ADHD?"

2020:

  • Poster prize from the Working Group for Sport Psychology (asp), 3rd place: Vanessa Gut, contribution "Anderer Ausbildungskontext – anderer Sportkontext?! Der Einfluss des Bildungsübergangs auf den Kontext des Sporttreibens von Jugendlichen" [Different educational context – different sporting context?! The influence of educational transition on the context of young people's sporting activities] (Gut, Conzelmann & Schmid)
  • Young Researcher Award of the European Association for Sociology of Sport (eass): Betelihem Alemu, contribution "Social Integration of Ethiopian and Eritrean Women in Switzerland through Informal Sport Setting"