Doctoral degrees and habilitations

Doctoral degrees

2025:

• Violetta Oblinger-Peters: "More than medals: The psychology of meaning in elite sport from lived experience to applied interve"
• Heinz Hegi: "Sensor–based Feedback for Coordination Training on the Sensopro"
• Sarah Piller: "Towards a Multilevel Governance Understanding of Environmental Sustainability Policy Generation in Non-Profit Sport Organisations"

2024:

• Damian Beck: "Sensomotorische Unsicherheit im Sport: Bayes-Integration des Vorwissens in Wahrnehmungs- und Handlungsprozesse" [Sensory-motor uncertainty in sport: Bayesian integration of prior knowledge in perception and action processes]
• Bryan Charbonnet: "Problemorientierte Talentforschung zwischen Verständnisstreben und Nutzendenken" [Problem-oriented talent research between striving for understanding and utilitarian thinking]
• Claudia Kubica: "Women in Motion. Exploring the Dynamic Relationship of the Menstrual Cycle with Physical Activity and Exercise"

2023:

• Fluri Wieland: "Unravelling the Brain at Resting State: What Differentiates Physical Activity Levels in People’s Default Mode Network?"
• Sofia Anzeneder: "Designing acute physical activity for children's cognition: Effects of cognitive challenge, bout duration, and positive feedback"
• Merlin Örencik: "A person-oriented approach towards researching (post-)athletic careers in high-performance sport"
• Matthias Buser: "Soziale Integration im Vereinssport – Entstehung und Rolle struktureller Bedingungen" [Social integration in club sports – emergence and role of structural conditions]

2022:

• Amie Wallman-Jones: "Physical activity-related influences on interoceptive processing"
• Stephan Zahno: "Kreativität im Sportspiel" [Creativity in sports games]
• Fabian Mumenthaler: "Advancing social participation research: providing a network-based theory of social participation and applications using exponential random graph models"
• Alexander Steiger: "Die Bedeutung der Gruppe für die soziale Partizipation im integrativen Sport" [The importance of the group for social participation in inclusive sport]
• Pascal Stegmann: "Digitale Transformation nicht-transaktionaler ökonomischer Logiken im Sportmanagement: Erkenntnisse aus verschiedenen Kontexten des Sportmarketings" [Digital transformation of non-transactional economic logic in sports management: insights from various contexts of sports marketing]
• Vitus Furrer: "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]
• Lars Lenze: "Sport and leisure-time physical activity behavior over the life course: Description and explanation of factors and events of individual trajectories"
• Michael Schmid: "Personorientierte Analysen von Karrieren im und nach dem Spitzensport" [Person-oriented analyses of careers in and after elite sport]
• Betty Alemu: "Sport and Social Intergration of Ethiopian and Eritrean Women and Broader Habesha Communities in Switzerland and Europe"

2021:

• Andri Feldmann: "Critical oxygenation: Can muscle oxygenation inform us about critical power?"
• Nina Schorno: "Von der Theorie in die Praxis: Konzeption, Umsetzung und Wirksamkeitsüberprüfung einer individuellen Sportberatung" [From theory to practice: Design, implementation and effectiveness testing of individual sport counselling]
• Daniel Schmid: "Schlafabhängige Gedächtnisprozesse und deren Einfluss auf die Konsolidierung von motorischen Sequenzierungsaufgaben" [Sleep-dependent memory processes and their influence on the consolidation of motor sequencing tasks]
• Helga Dizdari: "The role of attachment styles on intra-team relational dynamics and perceived cohesion. Implication of attachment theory within team sport settings"

2020:

• Julia Albrecht: "Participation of people experiencing disabilities in organized sports"
• Benjamin Rubeli: "Selbstkonzeptförderung durch Schulsport: Zur Wirkung einer Weiterbildung auf das professionelle Handeln von Lehrpersonen und das Selbstkonzept der Schüler*innen" [Promoting self-concept through school sports: The impact of continuing professional development on teachers' professional conduct and pupils' self-concept]
• Vanessa Gut: "Potentiale und Herausforderungen des personorientierten Ansatzes zur Erklärung des individuellen Sportverhaltens von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen" [Potential and challenges of the person-oriented approach to explaining the individual sporting behaviour of adolescents and young adults]

Habilitations

2025:

• Valentin Benzing: "Aus der Schule in die pädiatrische Onkologie: Körperliche Aktivität und Kognition" [From school to paediatric oncology: Physical activity and cognition]
• Andrea Schärli: "Live to Dance – Dance to Live. Optimal training for professional performance and community wellbeing"

2024:

• Christian Vater: "Peripheral perception in sport: How we see things from the corner of our eye"

2023:

• Claudia Zuber: "Bedeutung des Leistungsmotivtyps in der Talentdiagnostik" [Significance of performance motivation type in talent diagnostics]

2022:

• Sascha Ketelhut: "Die Immunsystem modulierende Wirkung von Sport" [The immune system-modulating effect of sport]
• Noora Ronkainen: "Cultural Transitions in Athletes’ Careers: Moving the Research Field Forward"

2021:

• Julia Schmid: "Zur Bedeutung von Bewegung und Sport für das Wohlbefinden in der zweiten Lebenshälfte" [The importance of exercise and sport for well-being in the second half of life]