Research Foci
- Applied Sport Psychology Praxis
- Mindfulness and Commitment Approaches in Elite Sport
- Self-Regulation-Diagnostics and -Interventions
- Sport Psychological Factors in Badminton
- Doping, Anti-Doping, and Doping Prevention
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Academic Education
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Ph.D., Education, specialization in Sport Psychology
- Saarland University: Diploma, Sport Science
Positions
- Lecturer Department of Sport Psychology, Muenster University
- Honorary Research Fellow, Kingston University London
- Career Counselor, Saabruecken Olympic Training Center
- Adjunct Faculty, Institute of Sport Science, Saarland University
- Research Associate Institute for Sport and Sport Science, Heidelberg University
- Research Associate Department of Exercise, Sport and Leisure Studies, University of Tennessee
- Research Assistant Department of Movement- and Training Science, Saarland University
Prizes
- AAHPERD Research Consortium Research Writing Award – American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
- Young Investigators Award – Saarland Sport Association
Functions and Memberships
- Editor, Newsletter Committee, Association for Applied Sport Psychology
- Chair, International Relations Committee, Association for Applied Sport Psychology
- Certified Consultant, Association for Applied Sport Psychology
- Reviewer, Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie
- Associate Editor, Newsletter Committee, Association for Applied Sport Psychology
- European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC)
- Scientific Board "Recovery Management in Elite Sport"
- Reviewer, Conference Abstracts, Annual Conference of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology
- Vizepräsident, Saarländische Triathlon Union
- Review Editor, Movement Science and Sport Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology
- Member, Database of Experts in Applied Sport Psychology, German Federal Institute of Sport Science
- Vorstandsmitglied, Handball-Verband Saar
- Member, International Relations Committee, Association for Applied Sport Psychology
- Association for Applied Sport Psychology
- North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA)
- Präsident/Vizepräsident, University of Tennessee Canoe & Hiking Club
Teaching
- Seminar>: Theories, Models and Approaches in Sport and Exercise Psychology> [075036]
- Seminar>: Perception and Attention> [074999]
- Seminar>: Applications and Interventions in Sport and Exercise Psychology> [075037]
- Seminar>: Physical Training in Elite Sports: Badminton> [073122]
- Seminar>: Social Influence on Performance and Decisions> [073135]
(in cooperation with Bernd Strauß) - Seminar>: Motor Learning and Psychological Training> [073136]
- Project seminar>: Expertise im Sport - Teil A+B ( 4SWS)> [073421]
(in cooperation with Barbara Halberschmidt)
- Seminar>: Soziale Prozesse Gruppe 1 (Grundlagenseminar)> [071162]
(in cooperation with Barbara Halberschmidt) - Seminar>: Seminar 4: Physical Training in Elite Sports: Badminton> [070992]
- Seminar>: Theories, Models and Approaches in Sport and Exercise Psychology> [071026]
- Seminar>: Applications and Interventions in Sport and Exercise Psychology> [071027]
- Project seminar>: Sporteventmanagement in Theorie und Praxis Teil A (2 SWS)> [071248]
(in cooperation with Barbara Halberschmidt and Bernd Strauß)
Projects
- Athletes' Transition Tools for Achieving Horizons – ATTACH-U ()
EU-Project Hosted outside University of Münster: EU - Programm Lebenslanges Lernen: Erasmus+ | Project Number: 101245404 - Coaching- und Leadershipkultur des Turn-Team Deutschland - Geräteturnen männlich - auf dem Weg nach LA 2028 ()
Individual Granted Project: Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft | Project Number: 2526BI1602 - An Intervention study on Coaching and Leadership Culture for Coaches in the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) – CULTurn ()
Participation in Federally Funded Joint Project: Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft | Project Number: ZMl4-071004/22-24 - Wissenschaftliche Begleitung des NTB-Projektes Stärkung von Image und Zuspruch der Trainertätigkeit
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Own Resources Project
Publications
- Friesen, A. P., Brueckner, S., & Tashman, L. S. (ed.) (). Contextually Competent Applied Practice Across Sport, Exercise, and Performance Domains. (1. edt.) Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003781486.
- Friesen, A. P., Brueckner, S., & Tashman, L. S. (ed.) (). Navigating the Globally Evolving Field of Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology. (1. edt.) Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003781479.
- Brückner, S., & Tietjens, M. (). Führungskompetenz. Eine bislang lang vernachlässigte Ressource der nachhaltigen Leistungsentwicklung von und für Trainerinnen und Trainer. Leistungssport. Sportwissenschaft in Theorie und Praxis, 22 (6), 18–24.
- Brückner, S., & Tietjens, M. (). Erfolgreich führen im Sport: Ressourcen nutzen, Kompetenzen stärken, mit Führung gestalten – Ein CULTurn- Arbeitsbuch zur Selbstreflexion und Weiterent- wicklung für Trainer:innen im Sport. Selbstverlag. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.21703489.
- Brückner, S., & Halberschmidt, B. (). (Angehende) Lehrkräfte gesund erhalten. Lehrhilfen für den Sportunterricht, 73 (10), 453–458.
- Quartiroli, A., Harris, BS., Brueckner, S., Chow, GM., Connole, IJ., Cropley, B., Fogaça, J., Gonzalez, SP., Guicciardi, M., Hau, A., Kao, S., Kavanagh, EJ., Keegan, RJ., Li, HY., Martin, G., Moyle, GM., Noce, F., Peterson, K., Roy, J., Rubio, VJ., Wagstaff, C. RD., Wong, R., Yousuf, S., & Zito, M. (). The International Society of Sport Psychology Registry (ISSP-R) ethical code for sport psychology practice. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 18. doi: 10.1080/1612197X.2020.1789317.
- Brückner, S., Raue, C., & Querfurth, S. (). Wenn virtuelle Online-Welten reale Auswirkungen haben: Umgang mit Cyber-Mobbing im Sport. 50. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sportpsychologie, Köln.
- Raue, C., Querfurth, S., Brückner, S., & Zito, M. (). How to effectively intervene with cyber-bullying in youth team sports. AASP 33nd Annual Conference, Toronto, Kanada.
- Brueckner, S., & Cote, T. (). Implementing Mindfulness Meditation Training for Sport 2.0 in a multi-national setting: Athletes’ experiences and cross-cultural perspectives. Annual meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Orlando, FL, USA.
- Brueckner, S. (). A holistic scientist-practitioner approach to developing performance excellence: Signature interventions fostering emotional self-regulation. Annual meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Orlando, FL, USA.
- Petróczi, A., Norman, P., & Brueckner, S. (). Can we better integrate the role of anti-doping in sports and society? A psychological approach to contemporary values-based prevention. in Rabin, O., & Pitsiladis, Y. (ed.), Acute Topics in Anti-Doping. (pp. 160–176). Karger. doi: 10.1159/000460726.
- Kolb, Meike, Dreiskämper, D., Petróczi, A., Holzgreve, P., Brückner, S., & Strauss, B. (). Legitimacy of anti-doping policies – athletes as researchers. NASPSPA 50 Anniversary, San Diego.
- Wright, DL., Rhee, J., Blischke, K., Erlacher, D., & Brueckner, S. (). Offline improvement occurs for temporal stability but not accuracy following practice of integer and non-integer rhythms. Acta Psychologica, 140, 266–273. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.05.010.
- Blischke, K., Zehren, B., Utter, T., & Brueckner, S. (). Doppeltätigkeits-Übung zeitstrukturierter Fingerbewegungsfolgen. Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 18, 18–30. doi: 10.1026/1612-5010/a000033.
- Blischke, K., Zehren, B., Wagner, F., Utter, T., & Brueckner, S. (). Is movement automatization by dual-task practice restricted to non-sequential tasks? Annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Tuscon.
- Blischke, K., Wagner, F., Zehren, B., & Brueckner, S. (). Dual-task practice of temporally structured movement sequences augments integrated task processing, but not automatization. Journal of Human Kinetics, 25, 5–15. doi: 10.2478/v10078-010-0026-1.
- Fairbrother JT, B. S., & Barros, JAC. (). The effects of switching between targets on a simple motor skill. Human Movement Science, 28, 1–11. doi: 10.1016/j.humov.2008.05.001.
- Fairbrother, JT., & Brueckner, S. (). Task switching effects in anticipation timing. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 79, 116–121.
- Blischke, K., Erlacher, D., Kresin, H., Brueckner, S., & Malangré, A. (). Benefits of Sleep in Motor Learning – Prospects and Limitations. Journal of Human Kinetics, 20, 23–36. doi: 10.2478/v10078-008-0015-9.
- Black, CB., Wright, DL., Magnuson, CE., & Brueckner, S. (). Learning to detect error in movement timing using physical and observational practice. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 76, 28–41.
- Wright, DL., Black, CB., Immink, MA., Brueckner, S., & Magnuson, CE. (). Long-term motor programming improvements occur via concatenation of movement sequences during random but not during blocked practice. Journal of Motor Behavior, 36.
Talks
- Brueckner, S : “A holistic scientist-practitioner approach to developing performance excellence: Signature interventions fostering emotional self-regulation”. Annual meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Orlando, FL, USA, .
- Brueckner, S, and Cote, T : “Implementing Mindfulness Meditation Training for Sport 2.0 in a multi-national setting: Athletes’ experiences and cross-cultural perspectives”. Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Orlando, FL, USA, .

