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Prof. Dr. Melanie Krüger
Prof. Dr. Melanie Krüger
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Address
Am Moritzwinkel 6
30167 Hannover
30167 Hannover
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Prof. Dr. Melanie Krüger
Executive Board
Institute of Sports Science
Management
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appointment by email
appointment by email
Sports and Cognition
Deputy Representatives for Professors
Committee for Doctoral Studies, Faculty of Humanities
Deputy Representatives for Professors
Examination Board Sports Science (Master of Arts)
Personal information
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Professional experience
- since 2020
Associate Professor (with tenure track) at the Institute of Sports Science, Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Head of the “Sports and Cognition”-Group
- 2017 - 2020
Post-doctoral Researcher, Chair of Human Movement Science, TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich
- 2015 – 2017
Post-doctoral Researcher, Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Ageing Group, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Australia
- 2013 –2015
Post-doctoral Researcher, Chair of Human Movement Science, TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich
- 2011
Visiting Scholar, College of Health and Human Development, Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- 2009 - 2013
PhD in Systemic Neurosciences, Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
- 2007 – 2008
Visiting Scholar, Department of Health & Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, USA
- 2004 –209
Diploma in Sports Sciences (Major: Professional Sports), Leipzig University
- since 2020
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Functions
- since 2022
Speaker dvs ad hoc-Committee "Research data management", German Society of Sport Science
- since 2022
Board member of the dvs section “Sportmotorik”, German Society of Sport Science
- 2016 – 2019
Speaker of the “Young ZiF”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University
- 2010 –2012
Student representative, Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
- since 2022
Focus areas in research and teaching
- Developmental Embodiment research
- Interrelationship of age-related changes in cognitive and motor functioning
- Motor decision making
- Interpersonal coordination and joint action
- Influence of life-long physical activity on cognitive and motor functioning
