Peter Federolf

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Peter Andreas Federolf (* 1974 in Rottweil ) is a German physicist and biomechanic .

Life

Federolf, who grew up in Hechingen , studied physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland and at the Brunel University in London in the United Kingdom . Between 2000 and 2005 he worked at the Swiss WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos , where he investigated the connections between sports equipment and snow in alpine skiing and completed his doctoral thesis accepted at ETH Zurich in 2005, for which he carried out simulations with carving Skis using the finite element method . Federolf then worked for a year at the sports institute of the University of Salzburg and dealt with the biomechanics of alpine skiing. He then went to the University of Calgary in Canada , where he held a position as an assistant professor from 2007 to 2011 and primarily examined mechanical aspects of human movements. In the meantime, Federolf spent around a month each for research purposes at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin in 2007 and at Stanford University in the United States in 2011 .

Between 2011 and 2013 he worked as a researcher at the Norwegian Sport University in Oslo , and at the beginning of 2014 he took up a professorship for biomechanics at the Institute of Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Technology in Trondheim . He held this position until December 2014, in February 2015 Federolf began his service as a professor of neurophysiology at the Institute for Sports Science at the University of Innsbruck .

Federolf's main research areas include movements of the human body, including using concepts such as balance, stability, control and coordination. He also deals with technical analysis in sports and with sports equipment.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Invitation to the inaugural lecture by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter FEDEROLF. In: Institute for Sports Science, University of Innsbruck. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Peter Federolf: Finite element simulation of a carving snow ski. In: Central Library Zurich Research Portal. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Peter Federolf: the person. In: University of Innsbruck. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ ÖSG-Mitteilungen December 2015. In: Österreichische Sportwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Federolf, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Federolf, Peter Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and biomechanic
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottweil