Jana Holder

Background

About Jana Holder

Since January 2023, I have been working as a postdoc at the University of Salzburg in the Department of Sport and Exercise Science in the Biomechanics group. Here, my research focus is on the musculoskeletal simulation of sports movements for a better understanding of these movements for training and therapy. From November 2018 to December 2022, I worked in Frankfurt at the University Hospital Frankfurt (respectively at the Orthopedic University Hospital Friedrichsheim gGmbH) in a DFG-funded project. In this project, we investigated dynamic knee joint loads in children and adolescents with valgus/varus deformities during walking using musculoskeletal simulations to represent internal knee contact forces. In parallel, I also completed my Ph.D. in 2022 on this topic at Goethe University Frankfurt. Before starting in Frankfurt, I did my bachelor's degree in "Medical Engineering" in Villingen Schwenningen at Furtwangen University from 2012-2016 and my master's degree in "Human Technology in Sports and Medicine" at the German Sport University Cologne from 2016-2018. During my studies, I was able to gain practical experience both in the industry (EPflex Feinwerktechnik) and in research (Liverpool John Moores University, B. Braun Avitum AG). Through these different experiences, I am interested in interdisciplinary issues. I like to work at the interface to combine components from technology, medicine, and sports.