Joachim Mester

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Joachim Mester (* 1948 ) is a German sports scientist and university professor .

Life

Between 1967 and 1974, Mester completed a teaching degree for grammar school in the subjects of sports science, education, English and biology at the University of Bochum , which he completed with the first state examination.

After receiving his doctorate at the Technical University of Dortmund in 1978 and his habilitation (subject: "Diagnostics of perception and coordination in sport") in 1985, he took up a professorship for training science at the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS) in 1986 . He became head of the Institute for Training Science and Sports Informatics. From 1989 to 1991 he was Vice Rector for Teaching, Studies and Study Reform at the DSHS. From 1991 to 1999 he was rector of the sports university.

From 1987 to 1989 Mester was a member of the board of the German Association for Sports Science .

Mester was a member of the scientific advisory boards of the German Sports Association and the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia , he advised the German national alpine skiing team on scientific issues and headed the sports science committee of the German Tennis Association . As chairman, he headed the German Research Center for Competitive Sports . Until 1993 he was a member of the founding committee of the sports science faculty at Leipzig University .

At the international level, Mester was also involved in sports science associations: He sat on the board of the World Council for Sports Science and was chairman of the “ European College of Sport Science ”.

The focus of his scientific work included questions of performance diagnostics and control. Mester has led numerous research projects, including research into training studies in the sports of tennis , triathlon , inline skating , athletics and skiing . As early as the 1970s, he was working on IT use in sporting contexts and, from 2002, headed a project on the subject of the “Online Campus of the German Sport University Cologne”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d http://www.sportland.nrw.de/fileadmin/nachwuchsfoerderung/workshops/w_13/haben/mester.pdf
  2. ↑ a b In conversation with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Joachim Mester . In: German Sport University Cologne (Ed.): Impulse, the science magazine of the German Sport University Cologne . Cologne February 2016, p. 39 .
  3. ↑ Joachim Mester: Diagnostics of perception and coordination in sport: learning of sporty movements (=  scientific series of publications of the German Sports Association ). Complete zugl .: Bochum, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1985, Schorndorf 1988, ISBN 978-3-7780-7661-3 ( uni-heidelberg.de [accessed December 7, 2018]).
  4. ^ Dvs board members 1976-today. May 28, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Jürgen Krug: Faculty of Sport Science - Roots, Founding and Stages of Development . In: Leipzig sports science contributions . 2013, issue 2, p. 23 .
  6. ↑ Joachim Mester: Quantitative technique analyzes in top tennis. 1996, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Joachim Mester: Individual time series analyzes in triathlons. 2002, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Joachim Mester: Vibration exposure in inline skating. 1996, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Joachim Mester: Supervision project for high altitude training camps of the DLV for medium and long distance runners in Flagstaff (Arizona / USA). 2009, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  10. ^ Joachim Mester: Measures accompanying training in ski jumping for young athletes. 2002, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Joachim Mester: On the problem of information processing in the cognitive-motor learning process . Pädagogische Hochschule Ruhr, 1978 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed December 7, 2018]).
  12. ^ Joachim Mester: Online campus of the German Sport University Cologne. 2002, accessed December 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mester, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1948