Prof. Dr. Thimo Wiewelhove
Overall supervision and quality assurance in training science
Professor of Training Science at the IST University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf and head of the master's programme “Training Science and Sports Nutrition”. His research focuses on recovery management and on performance management in elite sport. In 2023 he completed his habilitation at Ruhr University Bochum on the topic of recovery interventions and their effectiveness in sport. As a DOSB A-licence tennis coach and a member of the speakers' council of the Training Science section, he combines applied sport science with hands-on coaching. In the project he is responsible for overall supervision, for quality assurance in training science and for translating the results into applied guidelines.
Dr. phil. Adrian Markov
Project lead and postdoctoral researcher
A sport scientist with a doctorate and a focus on exercise physiology, combining academic expertise with many years of experience in high-performance sport. After posts in Cambridge and at Liverpool John Moores University, he earned his doctorate at the University of Potsdam on the regulation of the immune system in the context of physical exertion. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Caen Normandie he studied extreme endurance loads, thermoregulation and circadian rhythms. In the ChronoBlue project he coordinates the work as a whole in his role as project lead. A former judoka and a long-standing member of the national team, he knows the demands of elite sport from his own experience.
Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Jörg H. Stehle
Chronobiology and jetlag adjustment
A biologist with a doctorate, a habilitated anatomist and a neuroscientist. From 2004 to 2020 he headed the Institute of Anatomy III in the Faculty of Medicine at Goethe University Frankfurt and earned an international reputation as a chronobiologist. An athlete himself since his youth – decathlete, road cyclist and successful duathlete and triathlete – he is a multiple German champion, a six-time European champion and a world championship runner-up. He offers professional advice on the prevention of jetlag and is responsible in the project above all for drawing up the (social) jetlag adjustment plans for the athletes.
Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Moser
Laboratory analyses and molecular markers
A biologist and psychobiologist, head of the molecular genetics laboratory of the Genetic Psychology department in the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum. His focus lies on the biology of stress regulation and on genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. He has established the analysis of cell-free DNA, small extracellular vesicles, epigenetic modifications and hair cortisol as biomarkers of physical and psychosocial strain. In the ChronoBlue project he is responsible for planning and carrying out the laboratory analyses and for evaluating physiological and molecular markers.
Maria Oertel (B.Sc.)
Data collection and data management
She studied sport science at bachelor level and is in the final phase of her master's programme “Training Science and Sports Nutrition” at the IST University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. Her interests lie in analysing processes of load, performance and adaptation in a sporting context. She gained her first research experience as a student research assistant in Würzburg. In the ChronoBlue project she supports data collection and data management and accompanies the work as part of her doctorate.
Hanna Bolling (B.Sc.)
Sports physiotherapy and master's thesis
Alongside her work as a sports physiotherapist she is taking her master's degree in “Training Science and Sports Nutrition” at the IST University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. Already during her bachelor studies, working in sports medicine and exercise therapy settings gave her insight into care in both recreational and competitive sport, and she focused on return-to-competition protocols, injury prevention and performance optimisation. She is writing her master's thesis within the ChronoBlue project.
