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Sport Ecology

As a scientific researcher in sport ecology, my work revolves around quantifying the impacts of sports and athletes on our environment, and vice versa. To achieve this, I am developing a method to extrapolate activity data from athletes on outdoor platforms across large areas. Through this, I aim to determine the location factors that attract sports enthusiasts. Additionally, I model and quantify the introduction of microplastics into the environment by athletes based on these frequencies.

• Since 2021
  

  Research Assistent and PhD candidate focusing on remote monitoring and sport-related microplastic entry at the Chair of Sport Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  
  Study coordinator, Additional study program for sustainability
  

• 2018 - 2021

  M.Sc. Ecology and Biodiversity, Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria
  
  Master's thesis: "Ciliates in man-made mountain reservoirs"
  
  Student collaborator, project: "Reservoirs for artificial snowmaking - New habitats for planktonic organisms?"
  

• 2012 - 2018

  B.Sc. Biology, Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria
  

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Sport Ecology

• Teaching: Sustainability, Project Implementation
  
• Outdoor apps and GPS data, movement patterns, and microplastic dispersion
  
• E-sports and nature perception
  

Sport Ecology

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Sport Ecology

Research Assistant, Coordinator study program "Sustainability"

Building: Bayreuth, Institute of Sport Science, Room 1.38

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-3478
E-mail: fabian.sommer@uni-bayreuth.de