Nanna Notthoff

I am an Assistant Professor of Exercise Psychology at Leipzig University’s Faculty of Sport Science. My research focuses on understanding the bi-directional relationship between motivational and emotional processes and the adoption and effectiveness of health promoting behaviors (physical activity; reduction of sedentary behavior) throughout the adult life span. In my work, I rely on a multi-method approach that includes the assessment of behavior and subjective experience in interventions and lab experiments. Ultimately, I hope to understand how individual-level emotional and motivational factors relate to health behaviors in the context of people’s social and physical environments. I received a B.S. in Psychology and in Anthropology from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. I completed Postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley and at the Humboldt University Berlin (funded by a Horizon2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship).