Christoph Mickel holds a doctorate in sports science and is managing director of ATHLYZER GmbH, which he co-founded in 2017 as a spin-off of TU Darmstadt.
He completed his doctorate on movement variability at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2014 and worked as a research associate in the Department of Movement and Training Science from 2010 to 2019. A DFG research fellowship took him to the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In practice he worked in performance diagnostics at Eintracht Frankfurt and SV Darmstadt 98. As a former goalkeeper in the hockey Bundesliga, he also knows video analysis from the player's side.
Focus areas
Articles by Christoph Mickel
His first articles will appear on the ATHLYZER blog soon.
Selected publications
- Mickel, C. & Schmidtbleicher, D. (2009). Vergleich des freien Gehens mit dem Gehen auf dem Laufband – eine EMG-Studie. Sportverletzung Sportschaden, 23, 133–137.
- Mickel, C. & Schmidtbleicher, D. (2010). Treadmill versus overground walking – an EMG-study. Isokinetics and Exercise Science, 18, 83–84.
- Schmidtbleicher, D. & Mickel, C. (2012). Weshalb wir Variationen bei unseren Bewegungen brauchen. In Leistungsdiagnostik und Trainingssteuerung (S. 300–309). Sportverlag Strauß.
- Ohlendorf, D. et al. (2012). Sportmundschutz bei Feldhockeyspielern. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin, 63(6), 173–180.
- Mickel, C. (2014). Bewegungsvariabilität am Beispiel des Gangs. Dissertation, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
