Prof. em. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Hossner

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Curriculum Vitae

Prof. em. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Hossner served as a full professor of sport science with a focus on motor control and learning from 2009 until his retirement in 2026. In addition, he headed the ISPW Department of Movement and Exercise Science and acted as the institute’s executive director, as dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences, and as founding president of the university’s Digitalization Commission. In these roles, he made significant contributions to the development of the Institute Strategy, the Faculty Strategy and the Digitalization Strategy of the University.

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Period Station|Event
2009–2026 Full Professor of Movement and Exercise Science and Head of Department at the Institute of Sport Science, University of Bern/CH
2023–2025 Head of the Institute of Sport Science, University of Bern/CH
2022–2023 Chair of the Digitalization Commission at the University of Bern/CH
2019–2021 Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Bern/CH
2007–2009 Full Professor of Movement Science and Head of the Department of Sport Science at Liverpool Hope University/GB
2003–2007 Deputy Professor of Movement and Exercise Science at the Institute of Sport Science, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald/DE
2003–2005 Chair of the Section for Motor Control and Learning of the German Society of Sport Science (dvs)
2002 Carl Diem Award of the German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB Science Award) for the habilitation thesis “Bewegende Ereignisse” (“Moving Events”)
2002 Habilitation and Privatdozent with venia legendi in Sport Science at Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg/DE
1995–2002 Postdoc Researcher at the Institute for Sport and Sport Science at Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg/DE
1995–1997 Spokesperson of the Commission on Early-Career Researchers of the German Society of Sport Science (dvs)
1994 Carl Diem Award of the German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB Science Award) for the doctoral thesis “Module der Motorik” (“Motor Modules”)
1994 Doctor of Philosophy at Free University of Berlin/DE
1989–1994 PhD student and Research Assistant at the Institute of Sport Science, Free University of Berlin/DE
1988–1989 PhD student and Research Assistant at the Department of Sport Science, Bielefeld University/DE
1986–1988 Civilian service with the Catholic Youth Education Center in Bielefeld/DE
1987 First state examination for a teaching degree at high school level at Bielefeld University/DE
1979–1986 Study of sport, chemistry, and education at Bielefeld University/DE
1979 High school diploma at the Thomas-Morus-Gymnasium in Oelde/DE
Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Hossner (Document in German) (PDF, 67KB)

Research

  • Perception-action-coupling
  • Effect-oriented motion control
  • Interdisciplinary sport science

Publications

Publications

Until his retirement in 2026, Prof. em. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Hossner contributed to over 120 academic publications, including the following five books as sole, first, or last author:

  • Hossner, E.-J. (1995). Module der Motorik [Motor Modules]. Hofmann.
  • Hossner, E.-J. (1997). Sportwissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs 2000. Strukturen – Qualifikationen – Prognosen [Early-Career Researchers in Sport Science: Structures – Qualifications – Forecasts]. Czwalina.
  • Hossner, E.-J. (2004). Bewegende Ereignisse [Moving Events]. Hofmann.
  • Kittel, T., Lamschik, H., Kortmann, O., & Hossner, E.-J. (2016). Volleyballtraining: Das Baukastensystem [Volleyball Training: The Box-of-Bricks System]. Hofmann.
  • Hossner, E.-J., & Künzell, S. (2022). Einführung in die Bewegungswissenschaft. [Introduction to Movement Science]. Limpert.

Freely available materials related to the textbook mentioned last are provided on the separately accessible webpage.

Publications since he joined the University of Bern in 2009 are available in a continuously updated format on the university’s BORIS research information system, linked below. The original papers listed here primarily relate to research projects that were planned and conducted in collaboration with Dr. Ralf Kredel and within which postdoctoral work (Dr. André Klostermann, Dr. Christian Vater, Dr. Andrea Schärli, Dr. Lukas Magnaguagno, Dr. Stephan Zahno, Dr. Damian Beck) or doctoral dissertations were completed (André Klostermann, Olivia Schläppi-Lienhard, Urs Schnyder, Christian Vater, Daniel Schmid, Stephan Zahno, Damian Beck, Dino Tartaruga, Mathilde Truffer, Constanze Dammeyer). The separately accessible webpages on research highlight selected publications of particular thematic relevance.

Publication Year Type

Teaching

Teaching

With regard to the development of teaching materials, Prof. em. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Hossner is the author of the textbook “Introduction to Kinesiology” (co-authored with Prof. Dr. Stefan Künzell; see separate webpage). In addition, he has contributed chapters to textbooks in the field of sport science, specifically on motor learning (Hossner & Künzell, 2003), motor control (Hossner, 2006), teaching motor skills (Munzert & Hossner, 2008), fundamental coordination training (Stein & Hossner, 2017), structuring practice (Hossner et al., 2020), movement coordination (Hossner et al., 2022), structural learning (Hossner & Braun, 2026), and coordination and skill training in team sports (Hossner & Zahno, 2026a,b; Zahno & Hossner, 2026a,b), as well as from pedagogical (Hossner, 2026) or psychological (Zahno & Hossner, 2024) perspectives:

  • Hossner, E.-J. (2006). Motorische Kontrolle. In M. Tietjens & B. Strauß (Hrsg.), Handbuch Sportpsychologie (S. 44–52). Hofmann.
  • Hossner, E.-J. (2026, in prep.). Verbesserung der Bewegungskoordination im Sportunterricht. In A. Menze-Sonneck, O. Peters, M. Pfitzner & E. Sahre (Hrsg.), Didaktik und Methodik eines mehrperspektivischen Sportunterrichts. Hofmann.
  • Hossner, E.-J., & Braun, D. (2026, in Vorb.). Structural learning and across-Task Transfer. In A. Effenberg, T. Stein & S. Zahno (Hrsg.), Handbuch motorische Kontrolle und motorisches Lernen im Sport. Hofmann.
  • Hossner, E.-J., Kredel, R., & Franklin, D. W. (2020). Practice. In D. Hackfort & R. J. Schinke (Eds.), The Routledge international encyclopedia of sport and exercise psychology (pp. 532–554). Routledge.
  • Hossner, E.-J., & Künzell, S. (2003). Motorisches Lernen. In H. Mechling & J. Munzert (Hrsg.), Handbuch Bewegungswissenschaft – Bewegungslehre (S. 131–153). Hofmann.
  • Hossner, E.-J., Müller, H., & Voelcker-Rehage, C. (2022). Koordination sportlicher Bewegungen – Sportmotorik. In A. Güllich & M. Krüger (Hrsg.), Sport. Das Lehrbuch für das Sportstudium (2. Aufl.) (S. 247–320). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64695-3_8
  • Hossner, E.-J., & Zahno, S. (2026a, in prep.). Koordination. In F. Fasold, A. Lau, A. Koke & S. König (Hrsg.), Sportspiele – Grundlagen, Vermittlung und Anwendungsfelder. Limpert.
  • Hossner, E.-J., & Zahno, S. (2026b, in prep.). Koordinationstraining. In F. Fasold, A. Lau, A. Koke & S. König (Hrsg.), Sportspiele – Grundlagen, Vermittlung und Anwendungsfelder. Limpert.
  • Munzert, J., & Hossner, E.-J. (2008). Lehren und Lernen sportmotorischer Fertigkeiten. In J. Beckmann & M. Kellmann (Hrsg.), Anwendungen der Sportpsychologie. Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Themenbereich D, Serie V, Bd. 2 (S. 177–255). Hogrefe.
  • Stein, T., & Hossner, E.-J. (2017). Koordination und Koordinationstraining. In K. Hottenrott & I. Seidel (Hrsg.), Handbuch Trainingswissenschaft – Trainingslehre (S. 240–262). Hofmann.
  • Zahno, S., & Hossner, E.-J. (2024). Trends in der Sportmotorik und Konsequenzen für die Sportpsychologie. In C. Englert, I. Pfeffer, K. Staufenbiel & C. Vater (Hrsg.), Sportpsychologie. Grundlagen und Trends (S. 119–138). UTB/UVK.
  • Zahno, S., & Hossner, E.-J. (2026a, in prep.). Technik. In F. Fasold, A. Lau, A. Koke & S. König (Hrsg.), Sportspiele – Grundlagen, Vermittlung und Anwendungsfelder. Limpert.

Zahno, S., & Hossner, E.-J. (2026b, in prep.). Techniktraining. In F. Fasold, A. Lau, A. Koke & S. König (Hrsg.), Sportspiele – Grundlagen, Vermittlung und Anwendungsfelder. Limpert.

Textbook

Textbook

For the textbook Einführung in die Bewegungswissenschaft (Hossner & Künzell, 2022: Introduction to Movement Science; written in German), general information (table of contents, definitions of terms, excerpts) as well as figures and tables (as PowerPoint files) can be found on the German version of this webpage.

Conferences

Conferences

Under the direction of Prof. em. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Hossner, the 8th Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Sport Science (4S) “Sports Science—in the Singular!” was held in Bern in 2016 with keynote lectures by Prof. Dr. Mathias Binswanger (Olten), Prof. Dr. Oliver Höner (Tübingen), and Prof. Dr. Joan Vickers (Calgary), as well as in 2019, the 16th Annual Conference of the Section for Motor Control and Learning of the German Society of Sport Science (dvs), featuring keynote lectures by Prof. Dr. David Franklin (Munich), Prof. Dr. Rob Gray (Mesa), Prof. Dr. Hermann Müller (Giessen), and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Stein (Karlsruhe). In addition, a farewell symposium titled “On Problems and Perspectives: The Future of Motor Control Science in Sports” was held in 2026 with long-time colleagues at the Paxmontana Hotel in Flüeli-Ranft.

From 2011 to 2026, the Department of Movement and Exercise Science also organized 14 “Winter Academies”—one-week conferences held in the Swiss mountains, including seminar sessions in the mornings and evenings, as well as group skiing in the afternoons. The events covered the following main topics and featured the following invited guests (alongside the department’s long-standing cooperation partner Stefan Künzell):

  • 2011|Adelboden: Visual Motor Control & Perceptual Learning (with Arne Nieuwenhuys, Raoul Oudejans, Gert-Jan Pepping, Harjo de Poel, Stefan Vogt & Frank Zaal)
  • 2012|Blatten: Motor Control & Learning in Complex Environments (with Fred Mast & Hermann Müller)
  • 2013|Grächen: Impedanzkontrolle (with Jonas Buchli, Jan Peters & Lorenz Radlinger)
  • 2014|Saas-Grund: Perception-Action Coupling in Sports (with Heiko Hecht, Lee Moore & Samuel Vine)
  • 2015|Saas Grund: Periphere und foveale Wahrnehmung im Sport (with Heiko Hecht, Markus Huff & Stefan Vogt)
  • 2016|Sass Grund: Adaptation (with Thorsten Stein)
  • 2017|Blatten: Gaze Anchoring in Sports (with David Mann, Constantin Rothkopf & Mark Williams)
  • 2018|Blatten: Periphere Wahrnehmung in Teamsportarten (with Bilge Sayim & Stephan de la Rosa)
  • 2019|Blatten: Structural Learning and Motor Memories (with Daniel Braun & David Franklin)
  • 2020|Blatten: Motor Memory Consolidation and Sleep (with Arnaud Boutin & Steffen Gais)
  • 2023|Blatten: Kognition und Motorik (with Rouwen Cañal-Bruland & Florian Müller)
  • 2024|Blatten: Sensomotorische Unsicherheit und funktionelle Variabilität (with Julian Rudisch & Claudia Voelcker-Rehage)
  • 2025|Blatten: Mastering Complexity (with Andrea d’Avella & Antonella Maselli)
  • 2026|Belalp: Sportmotorik zwischen komputationalem Sein und pädagogischem Sollen (with Sabine Reuker)

At the “Berner Gespräche,” the Institute’s interdepartmental research seminar, the following researchers were invited as guests by the Department of Movement and Exercise Science from 2009 to 2026:

  • 16.03.2009|Prof. Dr. Volker Schürmann (Köln): Menschliche Körper in Bewegung – ein methodologisches Problem
  • 07.12.2009|Dr. Rouwen Cañal-Bruland (Amsterdam): Zum Einfluss der Wahrnehmung auf Handeln im Sport – und andersrum!
  • 19.04.2010|Prof. Dr. Hermann Müller (Giessen): Sportliche Bewegungen zwischen Ausführungsvariabilität und Ergebniskonstanz
  • 06.12.2010|Prof. Dr. Henning Plessner (Heidelberg): Urteilsfehler von Kampf- und Schiedsrichtern im Sport: Von der Analyse zur Prävention
  • 09.05.2011|Dr. Stefan Vogt (Lancaster): The coupling brain: Interpersonale Kopplungen und Imitationslernen – Verhalten und neuronale Organisation
  • 07.11.2011|Prof. Dr. Benoît Bardy (Montpellier): Acquisition and transfer of skills using ecologically oriented multimodal virtual reality interfaces
  • 07.05.2012|Prof. Dr. Claudia Voelcker-Rehage (Bremen): Körperliche Aktivität zur Förderung der Kognition über die Lebensspanne
  • 03.12.2012|Prof. Dr. Heiko Hecht (Mainz): Wahrnehmen und Handeln in extremen Umgebungen
  • 06.05.2013|Prof. Dr. Klaus Blischke (Saarbrücken): «Schlaf mal drüber» – Bewegungslernen und Gedächtniskonsolidierung
  • 14.10.2013|Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Scherer (München): Sportdidaktik trifft Sportmotorik – Zur Bedeutung des Modells der effektkontrollierten Motorik für das Lehren und Lernen sportlicher Bewegungen
  • 28.10.2013|Prof. Dr. Mark Wilson (Exeter): I spy with my quiet eye! Benefits for training and performing under pressure
  • 24.03.2014|Prof. Dr. Mark Williams (London): Anticipation and decision-making skill: From conceptual frameworks to applied interventions
  • 10.11.2014|Prof. Dr. Marc Ernst (Bielefeld): Von Multisensorik zur Sensomotorik: Ein probabilistischer Ansatz
  • 30.03.2015|Prof. Dr. Werner Helsen (Leuven): Expert perception and performance in football refereeing: Did 20 years of research make any difference?
  • 14.03.2016|Prof. Dr. Dirk Kerzel (Genf): Wie wird unsere Aufmerksamkeit kontrolliert?
  • 14.11.2016|Hajo Seppelt (Köln): Geheimsache Doping
  • 27.02.2017|Dr. Daniel Braun (München): Sensomotorische Lern- und Entscheidungsprozesse
  • 10.04.2017|Prof. Dr. Volker Lippens (Hamburg): Wenn schon, denn schon! Zu Gleichgewichtsleistungen in Laborsituationen
  • 11.12.2017|Dr. Michael Kimmel (Salzburg): Die Orchestrierung von Mikrofertigkeiten in Tanz, Kampfsport und Körperarbeit: Synergie, Selbstorganisation, und metaregulative Kompetenz
  • 23.04.2018|Prof. Dr. Martin Lames (München): Performance analysis in football
  • 29.10.2018|Prof. Dr. Emma Redding (London): The identification and development of dance talent among young people in UK
  • 11.03.2019|Prof. Dr. Björn Rasch (Fribourg): Schlaf und Gedächtnis
  • 30.09.2019|Prof. Dr. Keith Davids (Sheffield): Balancing specificity and generality in motor learning can transform lives of beginners and elite performers in sport
  • 30.11.2020|Prof. Dr. Joachim Hermsdörfer (München): Feinmotorische Kontrolle, Antizipation und Wahrnehmung bei Objektmanipulation
  • 01.03.2021|Adrian Rothenbühler (Magglingen): Die schnellste Bernerin! Einblick in die Trainingssysteme von Mujinga Kambundji
  • 18.10.2021|Prof. Dr. John van der Kamp (Amsterdam): Towards an ecological pedagogy for motor skill education
  • 28.02.2022|Prof. Dr. Konrad Körding (Philadelphia): Bayesian behavior in the lab and in sports
  • 03.10.2022|Prof. Dr. Constantin Rothkopf (Darmstadt): Reconciling normative and descriptive models of human sequential behavior with inverse optimal control
  • 13.03.2023|Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kunde (Würzburg): Ideomotor thinking in theory and research practice
  • 04.12.2023|Prof. Dr. Stefan Künzell (Augsburg): Ways to improve multitasking: Predictability and task integration
  • 11.03.2024|Dr. Antonella Maselli (Rom) & Prof. Dr. Andrea d'Avella (Rom): Toward the study of complex motor skills using modularity and virtual reality
  • 11.11.2024|Dr. Jörg Fuchslocher (Magglingen) & Patrick Bruggmann (Muri): Projekt Spielintelligenz: der SFV auf der Suche nach SMARTen Spielerinnen und Spielern
  • 05.05.2025|Dr. David Harris (Exeter) & Dr. Tom Arthur (Exeter): Predictive processing in sports and visuomotor skills
  • 15.12.2025|Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Bresciani (Fribourg): Combining virtual environments and applied scenarii to study human perception and sensorimotor control
  • 11.05.2026|Dr. Ines Debove (Bern): Impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s Disease

Awards

Awards

Prof. em. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Hossner is the only sport scientist to have been awarded the 1st prize in the prestigious competition for the Carl Diem Plaque of the German Sports Federation twice since its inception in 1953 (now DOSB Science Award)—namely, in the 1993/94 competition for his dissertation “Module der Motorik (“Motor Modules”) and in the 2001/02 competition for his habilitation thesis “Bewegende Ereignisse (“Moving Events”). In addition, young researchers he has supervised have repeatedly been honored with scientific awards, as listed below.

  • 2012|André Klostermann: Young Investigators Award of the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC)
  • 2013|André Klostermann: Reinhard Daugs Promotion Award of the Section for Motor Control and Learning of the German Society of Sport Science (dvs)
  • 2013|Olivia Schläppi-Lienhard: Young Investigator Award of the Swiss Society of Sport Science (4S) in the category Natural Sciences
  • 2017|Christian Vater: Reinhard Daugs Promotion Award of the Section for Motor Control and Learning of the German Society of Sport Science (dvs)
  • 2018|André Klostermann: Theory Award of the Section Sport Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGP)
  • 2019|Christian Vater: Dissertation Award of the Swiss Society of Sport Science (4S)
  • 2019|Christian Vater: Karl Feige Award of the German Association of Sport Psychology (asp)
  • 2019|Stephan Zahno: Young Investigator Award of the Commission Football of the German Society of Sport Science (dvs)
  • 2022|Dino Tartaruga: Swiss Olympic Science Award (3rd prize)
  • 2022|Stephan Zahno: Young Investigator Award of the Swiss Society of Sport Science (4S) (3rd prize)
  • 2022|Stephan Zahno: Young Researcher Award of the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC) (2nd prize)
  • 2023|Stephan Zahno: Young Researchers Award of the International Society of Motor Control (ISMC) in the category Basic Science
  • 2024|Stephan Zahno: Presentation Award of the Section Sport Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGP)
  • 2025|Stephan Zahno: Dissertation Award of the Swiss Society of Sport Science (4S)

Services

Services

In addition to his administrative roles at the University of Bern, Prof. em. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Hossner served as chair for the Section for Motor Control and Learning of the German Society of Sport Science, member of the advisory board for the “German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research”, and founding editor of the journal “Current Issues in Sport Science”. As spokesperson for the Commission on Early-Career Researchers of the German Society of Sport Science, he published a nationwide study on the status of young researchers in German sport science (Hossner, 1997) and played a key role in establishing dvs early-career workshops, the information brochure “Ze-phir,” and the D-A-CH network “Early-Career Researchers in Sport Science”.

Between 2009 and 2026, Prof. em. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Hossner also served as a reviewer for the following organizations:

  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Czech Science Foundation (GAČR)
  • Swiss Society of Sport Science (4S)
  • German Society of Sport Science (dvs)
  • German Association of Sport Psychology (asp)
  • Federal Office for Sport (FOSPO)
  • Swiss Olympic
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Furthermore, he was involved as an external expert in various professorial appointment processes and served as a reviewer for the following academic journals:

  • Acta Psychologica
  • BiomedCentral Psychology
  • Brain Sciences
  • Cogent Psychology
  • Discover Psychology
  • European Journal of Sport Science
  • Experimental Brain Research
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Sportwissenschaft/German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research
  • Human Movement Science
  • International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • Journal of Big Data
  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Journal of General Psychology
  • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
  • Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • Journal of Vision
  • Medicine & Science in Sport & Exercise
  • Perception
  • Perceptual and Motor Skills
  • PLOS ONE
  • Psychological Research
  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Sports Medicine-Open
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Zeitschrift für sportpädagogische Forschung