Team > Melinda Herfet

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chair in Social and Health Sciences in Sport

Curriculum Vitae:

Working experience

• Since 11/2022: Joint/Cotutelle PhD Candidate, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
• Since 10/2021: Research associate (PhD) at the Chair in Social and Health Sciences in Sport, BaySpo - Bayreuth Center of Sport Science, University of Bayreuth
• Since 08/2021: Research assistant for the research group “Movement, physical performance and health within the second half of life”, Network Aging Research (NAR), University of Heidelberg
• 07/2021 – 09/2021: Research associate at the Department of Sports Psychology, Institute of Sport Science, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz
• 04/2021 – 05/2021: Global volunteer within the project “Healthy Sports” in Ghana, Africa
• 01/2021 - 03/2021: Working student in the vaccination centre of the Clinical Centre Neumarkt i.d.Opf.
• 09/2020 – 12/2020: Research associate for the research group “Mental Performance”, Red Bull Athlete Performance Centres (APC), Thalgau, Austria
  
• 10/2017 – 04/2020: Student assistant at the Department of Kinesiology, Institute of Sport Science, University of Regensburg
  
• 10/2018 – 12/2019: Working student for workplace health management, E-T-A Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH, Altdorf
  

Academic education

• 2018-2021: M.A. Applied Kinesiology „Motion and Mindfulness“, University of Regensburg
  
• 2020: Semester abroad as a research student at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Institute of Sport Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  
• 2015-2018: B.A. Applied Kinesiology, University of Regensburg

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chair in Social and Health Sciences in Sport

Research priorities

• Applied sports psychology
  
• Active travel and cognitive functions
  
• Neurocognitive processes in sport and exercise
  
• Mental Performance
  
• Public Health
  

Teaching priorities

• Applied sports psychology
  
• Social sciences in sport
  
• Physical activity related health promotion
  
• Back and spinal school
• Snowboard
  

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chair in Social and Health Sciences in Sport

Publications

Veröffentlichungen in Zeitschriften (peer-reviewed)

Susanne Tittlbach, Antonia Brockfeld, Sebastian Kindig, Melinda Herfet: Maintaining health in daily life - is active travel the solution?. In: German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, 54 (2024). - S. 121-134.
doi:10.1007/s12662-023-00924-4

Melinda Herfet, Stefano De Dominicis, Florian Seidl, Petra Jansen: Evaluation of the Online Sport-Specific Mindfulᵉmotions Program in a Population of Scandinavian Elite Athletes Measuring Psychological Parameters. In: Scandinavian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 5 (2023). - S. 31-40.
doi:10.7146/sjsep.v5i.133568

Beiträge in Sammelbänden (peer-reviewed)

Melinda Herfet: Schwimmen. In: Petra Jansen, Sabine Hoja (Hrsg.): Glücklich durch Sport? : Eine wissenschaftliche Betrachtungsweise. - Bern : Hogrefe, 2020. - S. 127-137.
doi:10.1024/85993-000

Veröffentlichungen in Zeitschriften (non peer-reviewed)

Melinda Herfet, Susanne Tittlbach: Promotion PLUS : Der Blick über den Tellerrand. In: Ze-phir : Informationen für den sportwissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs, 30 (2023). - S. 27-31.

Veranstaltungsbeitrag

Melinda Herfet, Emiliano Mazzoli, Anna Timperio, Susanne Tittlbach: Active Travel - Active Mind? Der Zusammenhang zwischen aktiver Mobilität und kognitiven Fähigkeiten bei Kindern im Alter von 4-12 Jahren. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: Leistung steuern. Gesundheit stärken. Entwicklung fördern. 26. Sportwissenschaftlicher Hochschultag der Deutschen Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft (dvs), 20.-22. September 2023, Bochum, Germany.

Melinda Herfet, Susanne Tittlbach: The relationship between active travel (AT) and nonverbal intelligence (NI) : A systematic review. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: Ein Gehirn, viel Bewegung : Variabilität und Plastizität über die Lebensspanne, 54. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sportpsychologie (asp), 16.-18. Juni 2022, Münster, Germany.

Working paper

Melinda Herfet, Anna Timperio, Emiliano Mazzoli, Susanne Tittlbach: Associations between active travel and cognitive functions across the lifespan : a systematic review. - PROSPERO 2023 CRD42023407557, 2023. -

Vollständiges Zeitschriftenheft

Promotion unter der Lupe : Betreuungsverhältnisse zwischen Tradition und Innovation. - Melinda Herfet, Sandra Elisath, Jana Müller (Hrsg.). - Ze-phir : Informationen für den sportwissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs, 30 (2023), 2, 47 S.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chair in Social and Health Sciences in Sport

Melinda Herfet
Research associate (PhD)

E-Mail: melinda.herfet@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-5844
Building Sport Room 1.28
Consultation hours: by appointment

Links: https://linktr.ee/melindaherfet