Field of Work
Prof. Siebert’s research interests focus on questions regarding the structure and functioning of the muscles: as a muscle physiologist he investigates these questions and demonstrates them by means of simulation models. Research is carried out into the three-dimensional deformation of muscles during contraction (a German Research Foundation project in collaboration with Prof. Markus Böl, Braunschweig University of Technology). This project aims to develop the first muscle model which is validated based on deformation data.
Another project sponsored by the DFG in collaboration with Prof. Reinhard Blickhan, Jena, looks at the history dependence of muscle force, taking into account the function of the giant protein titin.
In collaboration with junior professor Syn Schmitt (Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems, Stuttgart), the impulse response of active muscles is investigated (e.g. when landing after a jump). The aim here is to achieve an improved understanding of the mechanical structure and function of the muscle.
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Muscle physiology and muscle modeling are the focus areas of kinesiologist Prof. Tobias Siebert, who was born in Erfurt in 1974. After studying in Jena, he gained his doctorate there at the Institute of Sports Science (Prof. Reinhard Blickhan) with a dissertation on the measurement and simulation of muscle contractions in small mammals and frogs. In his habilitation thesis of 2011 he looked into the experimental modeling of skeleton muscles and the application of models in muscle-skeleton simulations. Prof. Siebert is the deputy spokesperson of the German Society of Sport Science, Biomechanics Section, as well as being a member of the European Society of Biomechanics and the European Society for Muscle Research.
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Prof. Tobias Siebert
University of Stuttgart
Institute of Sports Science (InSpo)
Tel.: +49 711/ 685-60455
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