Prof. Christoph Zinner

He studied Sports Science at the German Sport University Cologne, completing his doctorate in 2013. He then conducted postdoctoral research in training science at the Swedish Winter Sports Research Centre in Östersund. From 2015 to 2017, he worked at the Department of Sports Science at the University of Würzburg. In late 2017, he was appointed Professor of Sport at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Administration of Hesse in Wiesbaden.

Professor Zinner’s research in the field of training science focuses on the physiological, metabolic, and performance-related responses and adaptations to various forms of training and types of physical activity. His main research areas include endurance training, the combination of endurance and strength training, the influence of the menstrual cycle on physical performance, sports-specific physiological diagnostics, training and daily activity monitoring, as well as the effects of environmental factors on performance-related physiological processes.

He is the author of over 90 publications in international journals and is part of the editorial boards of the European Journal of Sport Science and the German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research. For the last three years he has been a member of the ‘Training Science’ speaker's council of the German Association for Sport.

At the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, he is responsible for the training science content of the Bachelor's degree program, 'Health, Exercise and Performance', and the Master's degree program, 'Training, Health and Management in Sport'. Thanks to his many years of teaching experience at various universities, in coach education and advanced training for different sport federations, he possesses a wide range of teaching methods to inspire students in training science.

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