Otmar Leo Bock

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Otmar Leo Bock (* 1953 in Brno ) is a German physiologist , biophysicist and university professor .

Life

Bock went to school in Düsseldorf and graduated from high school in 1972 . Until 1978 he studied medicine at the University of Hamburg . The title of his doctoral thesis, which was accepted in the same year, was “A mathematical model for caloric nystagmus”. Between 1978 and 1982, Bock was a fellow of NATO and the German Research Foundation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and at the Free University of Berlin . From 1982 to 1988 he was at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorfworked and researched there in the field of “human sensorimotor skills”. In 1987 he completed his habilitation in biophysics in Düsseldorf  . The topic of his work was the "biophysics of the sensory-motor mechanisms in targeted arm movements".

In 1988, Bock took up a position as a research assistant at the Institute for Space and Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto and worked in Canada until 1995 . In 1995 he took over a professorship at the Institute for Physiology and Anatomy of the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS) and succeeded Jürgen Stegemann as head of the institute. Under Bock's direction, the institute was involved in several research projects on board the International Space Station and in parabolic flights.

His main research interests included the physiological foundations of sport, movement physiology and neuronal mechanisms of motor learning in healthy test subjects, neurological patients, astronauts and the elderly.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bock, Otmar: A mathematical model for caloric nystagmus. In: State and University Library Hamburg. Retrieved March 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c WHO IS WHO. In: German Sport University Cologne. Retrieved March 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Otmar Bock: Are astronauts clumsy? In: German Sport University Cologne (Hrsg.): Impulse. The science magazine of the German Sport University Cologne . Issue 1, May 2011, p. 40-44 .
  4. ↑ Otmar Bock: On the biophysics of the sensory-motor mechanisms in goal-directed arm movements. 1986, Retrieved March 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Uwe Hoffmann: 25 years of space research . In: German Sport University Cologne (Hrsg.): Impulse. The science magazine of the German Sport University Cologne . S. 6-13 .
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Otmar Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bock, Otmar Leo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist, biophysicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno