Susen Werner

Susen Werner is a researcher at the Institute for Communication Skills in Sports and Institute of Movement and Neuroscience at German Sport University Cologne. She specializes in sensorimotor adaptation, martial arts pedagogy, and virtual reality applications in motor learning.

• Dissertation: Neural localization of sensorimotor adaptation
• Key Collaborators: Heiko Strüder, Otmar Leo Bock, Andreas Mierau

Her research focuses on:

• Visuomotor adaptation in VR environments
• Behavioral neuroscience of martial arts training
• Mechanisms of intermanual transfer and generalization

Recent publications explore VR-based martial arts training and ownership perception in adaptation speed. Awards include research scholarships (2006, 2010) and multiple travel grants for international conferences (2014–2018).

Current projects:

• VisVir: Visuomotor adaptation in head-mounted VR (2021–2023)
• Evaluation of Aikido Federation Germany's grading system (2022)