Understanding movement is also critical for building resilience and preventing diseases like diabetes or cardiovascular disease — as well as for enhancing elite performance. Addressing these challenges requires advanced scientific expertise and the ability to translate theory into impact.
In this two-year programme, you will specialise in one of four scientific domains:
- Biomechanics in Sports, Exercise, and Health
- Movement Neuroscience for Health and Rehabilitation
- Physiology of Human Performance and Health
- Psychology in Sports, Performance, and Health
You will complete three advanced courses within your chosen domain. At the same time, you will follow a set of courses focused on developing your academic, methodological, professional and data science skills. This includes in-depth training in research design, data analysis, machine learning, and science communication.
During the second year, you will carry out a full-year Master Research Project (MRP), allowing you to work intensively on a research question of your choice. The MRP is supported by expert supervision, an peer learning. You will conclude with an impact-oriented thesis and present your findings at a research symposium. In addition to becoming well versed in these research areas, you’ll be trained in state-of-the-art research methodologies and advanced statistics. During this programme, you are encouraged to define your own position, and in doing so to become a reflective, critical and committed academic professional. The interactive, small-scale teaching methods used in the programme allow you to have in-depth discussions that meet the level and intensity of a Research Master’s programme. Plus, all the lecturers are renowned experts in their fields of research.
The start date of this programme is September 1st.
