Barth Michael
Name: Ass.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Michael Barth, Bakk. MSc, Studiendekan Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft
Email: Michael.Barth[at]uibk.ac.at
Phone number: +43 512 507 45834
Office location: FH-244
Tutorial hours: by arrangement
Address: Fürstenweg 176, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5333-3122
Research area: Epidemiology of alpine sports, Sports economics
Michael Barth studied Sport Management (Bachelor), Business Administration (Diploma), and Sports and Human Movement Science (Master) at the University of Innsbruck. He further successfully finished the Doctoral Program in Social and Economic Sciences (Dr.rer.soc.oec.) at the University of Innsbruck. He was academic employee at the Chair of Sports Economics and Health Economics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GER), had a deputy professorship for Sports Development at the Department for Sport Science at the Bundeswehr University Munich (GER), and went then on to be an academic employee at the Department of Sport Science, Economics, and Sociology of Sports at the Saarland University (GER). In 2020 he became Professor of Sports Management at the University of Applied Sciences FH Kufstein Tyrol (AUT). Since 2022 he is Assist. Prof. (tenure track) at the University of Innsbruck. In 2024 he became Dean of Studies of the Faculty.
- Talent identification and talent development in sports
- Epidemiology of injuries in alpine ski racing
- Statistical learning, machine learning
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Teaching at the Department of Sport Science in Innsbruck (ongoing):
- Empirische Methoden (PS)
Güllich, A; Barth, M; Hambrick, DZ; Macnamara, BN (2025): Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance. In: Science 390/6779, No. eadt7790. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adt7790
Barth, M; Güllich, A; Macnamara, BN; Hambrick, DZ (2024): Quantifying the Extent to Which Junior Performance Predicts Senior Performance in Olympic Sports: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. In: Sports Medicine 54, S. 95 - 104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-023-01906-0
Barth, M; Güllich, A; Macnamara, BN; Hambrick, DZ (2022): Predictors of Junior Versus Senior Elite Performance are Opposite: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Participation Patterns. In: Sports Medicine 52, S. 1399 - 1416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01625-4
Barth, M; Güllich, A (2021): Non-linear association of efficiency of practice of adult elite athletes with their youth multi-sport practice.
In: Journal Of Sports Sciences 39/8, S. 915 - 925. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2020.1851900
Barth, M; Platzer, H-P; Giger, A; Nachbauer, W; Schröcksnadel, P (2021): Acute on-snow severe injury events in elite alpine ski racing from 1997 to 2019: the Injury Surveillance System of the Austrian Ski Federation. In: British Journal of Sports Medicine 55, S. 589 - 595. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-102752