Project task
Project coordination, Organization of project meetings, Planning and Implementation of training courses of assessors
Expertise
Public Health, Intervention Studies, Physical Activity Promotion in Old Age, mHealth, techology-based assessments of mobility
Biography
Biography
Tobias Eckert completed his bachelor's degree in Sport Science and Sport Therapy at the University of Freiburg in 2010. Building on this, he earned the master’s degree in Sport Science with a focus on health promotion and health management in the University of Leipzig in 2013. He accomplished his PhD with a dissertation on the Post-inpatient care of geriatric patients in the transitional stage between inpatient rehabilitation and discharge to home environment” at the University of Heidelberg in 2021. his interdisciplinary work included the implementation and evaluation of two home exercise studies as model projects to improve the motor performance of this vulnerable target group, and examined the health-economic evaluation of a 12-week physical training program.
After completing his sports studies, he took on a teaching position at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences at the Technical University of Dortmund (2013-2015) and helped as research fellow at the Catholic University of Freiburg (2015-2016) to conceptualize an educational intervention to increase physical activity after inpatient rehabilitation in breast cancer patients.
He started on the path at the intersection of gerontology, geriatrics and exercise science as research fellow in two home-based physical training studies in geriatric patients at the Bethanien Hospital as Geriatric Centre of the University of Heidelberg (2016-2019).
At the Institute of Sport and Sport Sciene of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) he expanded his professional expertise with knowledge in the field of digital health promotion by developing, implementing a mobile application for activity promotion in families.
Since January 2023, he works as PostDoc in the SMART-AGE project at the NAR, having responsibility for project coordination. Further, he supports the data analysis of the EU-research consortium Mobilise-D, comprising 34 participating universities to gain further insight in the assessment of digital biomarkers of predictive value for the trajectories of different clinical populations.
Relevant publications
Wunsch, K., Eckert, T., Fiedler, J., & Woll, A. (2021). Just-in-time adaptive interventions in mobile physical activity interventions–A synthesis of frameworks and future directions. European Health Psychologist.
Eckert, T., Wronski, P., Bongartz, M., Ullrich, P., Abel, B., Kiss, R., Wensing, M., Koetsenruijter, J. & Hauer, K. (2021). Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a home-based exercise program in geriatric patients with cognitive impairment. Gerontology. DOI: 10.1159/000512748
Eckert, T., Bongartz, M., Ullrich, P., Abel, B., Christian, W., Kiss, R., & Hauer, K. (2020). Promoting physical activity in geriatric patients with cognitive impairment after discharge from ward rehabilitation: a feasibility study. European Journal of Ageing, 1-12. DOI: 10.1007/s10433-020- 00555-w.
Eckert, T., Kampe, K., Kohler, M., Albrecht, D., Büchele, G., Hauer, K., Becker, C. & Pfeiffer, K (2020). Correlates of fear of falling and falls efficacy in geriatric patients recovering from hip / pelvic fracture. Clinical rehabilitation, 34(3), 416- 425, DOI:10.1177/0269215519891233.
Fiedler, J., Eckert, T., Wunsch, K. & Woll, A. (2020). Key facets to build up eHealth and mHealth interventions to enhance physical activity, sedentary behavior and nutrition in healthy subjects – an umbrella review. BMC Public Health 20(1): 1605.