Positions
PD Dr. Gerd Schmitz
PD Dr. Gerd Schmitz
Phone
Address
Am Moritzwinkel 6
30167 Hannover
30167 Hannover
Building
Room
Office hours
Wed. 10:00 - 11:00 Appointment via Stud.IP
PD Dr. Gerd Schmitz
Deputy Head of Examining Board
Examination Board Sports Science (Master of Arts)
Accreditation Officers
Representatives and Contact Persons for Students and Prospective Students, Institute of Sports Science
University Entrance Examination Officers
Office hours
by appointment
by appointment
Representatives and Contact Persons for Students and Prospective Students, Institute of Sports Science
Representatives for research staff
Examination Board Sports Science (Master of Arts)
Representatives for research staff
Admissions Board Sports Science (Master of Arts)
Research Staff
Office hours
Wed. 10:00 - 11:00 Appointment via Stud.IP
Wed. 10:00 - 11:00 Appointment via Stud.IP
Research staff not affiliated to the abovementioned sections
Department Student Advisors
Institute of Sports Science
Department Student Advisors
Representatives and Contact Persons for Students and Prospective Students, Institute of Sports Science
The Person
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Professional career
- Commercial training (1999)
- Diploma in sports science at the German Sport University (DSHS) Cologne, specialising in prevention and rehabilitation (sports rehabilitation, psychiatry and addiction) (2004)
- Freelance sports and back therapist (2001 - 2004)
- Research assistant at the Institute for Biomechanics and Orthopaedics at the DSHS Cologne (2004)
- Research assistant at the Institute of Physiology and Anatomy at the DSHS Cologne (2004 - 2006, 2007 - 2008)
- Graduate scholarship (2006 - 2007)
- Doctorate at the DSHS Cologne (2010)
- Administration of the Professorship of Training Science at the Institute of Sports Science at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (2016 - 2017)
- Research assistant at the Institute of Sports Science at Leibniz University Hannover (since 2008)
- Habilitation at the Leibniz University of Hanover (2018)
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Further memberships
- German Association for Sports Science (dvs); Member of the Speakers' Council of the Sports Motor Skills Section until 2022
- Association for the promotion of young sports scientists e.V.
- Special Olympics Lower Saxony (SO-NDS)
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Awards and honours
- Karl Hofmann Publication Prize for Dissertations 2011 (1st place)
FOCUS ON RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Teaching
- Courses: scientific, research methodological and didactic seminars (inclusion), theory and practice of sports.
- Final theses: Master's theses are offered as empirical work on self-regulation in training (see research).
- Other examination matters: The latest submission deadline for term papers in winter semester 2023/2024 is 10 March 2024!
Academic self-administration
- Supervision and coordination of the Master's degree programme in Sport Science - Health Promotion through Sport (including admission and examination matters).
- Study counselling: Interdisciplinary Bachelor (FüBA) - extracurricular.
- Immaturity examination.
Research
- Self-regulation in training.
- Biomimetic diagnostics.
- Sensorimotor adaptation.