Jürgen Konczak

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Jürgen Konczak (* 1960 in Hamburg ) is a professor of neuromotor biomechanics at the University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , director of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory and a fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology .

Life

After graduating from high school in Hamburg, he studied sports science and philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . After graduating in teaching in 1984, he continued his sports studies at the University of Idaho , Moscow , where he received his Master of Science degree in 1985 . He was now a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison until 1990, was a year at Indiana University Bloomington before receiving his Ph.D. Degree in Kinesiology from the University of Wisconsin. From 1991 to 1995 he was a research assistant in the neurology department of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . From here he moved to the Institute for Psychological Cybernetics and Psychobiology at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where he received his PhD in 1998. rer. nat. habil. was habilitated . He then moved to the University of Minnesota, where he was eventually promoted to full professor and director of the research institute. In 2017 he was visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich , with whom he stayed as a Research Fellow . He heads the Center for Clinical Exercise Science at his university . His main field of research is the analysis of pathological movements as a result of neurological diseases. Together with Italian colleagues, he has a patent on an analysis and training device for rebuilding perception on the wrist. In 2010 he was co-opted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.sg.tum.de/news/news-singleview-fakultaet/article/prof-konczak-zu-gast-am-lehrstuhl-fuer-bewegungungswissenschaft/
  2. ↑ J. Konczak (2009). Proprioception and Motor Control in Parkinson's Disease. Journal of Motor Behavior 41 (6), 543-552.
  3. ↑ US 2016/0270999 A1
personal data
SURNAME Konczak, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konczak, Juergen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German movement scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg