Dipl. Biol. (Biological Sciences); Dr. rer. nat. (Biochemistry); P.D. (venia legendi, Physiology).

Hans-Peter Kubis is Director of the Health Exercise and Rehabilitation group. His main research area is the prevention and treatment of obesity, as well as its underlying causes and mechanisms on physiological and psychological levels. This includes the development of weight loss strategies, techniques for investigating perceptual responses to food, analysing the interaction of nutrients and metabolism on whole body and cellular levels. Moreover, he investigates the pathophysiology of chronic diseases connected with obesity like obstructive sleep apnoea and diabetes type II. A further main interest is the investigation of mechanisms of adaptations to exercise on psychological, physiological and cellular levels. In particular, interactions of exercise stimuli and nutrients influencing skeletal muscle and whole body metabolism and weight regulation are investigated with various techniques (see paragraphs about particular PhD projects below). A broad spectrum of physiological, cellular-biochemical, as well as psychological techniques are used for the investigations