Jörg Spörri is a titular professor and the Head of Sports Medical Research at Balgrist University Hospital, within the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Zurich. He earned his Master’s degree in Human Movement Sciences from ETH Zurich in 2009. Jörg Spörri then moved to the University of Salzburg, where he completed his Doctoral degree in 2012 and habilitated with venia legendi in Biomechanics in 2017. In 2022, he then received the venia legendi in Experimental Sports Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zurich in 2022, before being given the titular professorship in 2023.

He and his research group focus on protecting the health of elite athletes and developing innovative diagnostic and rehabilitation concepts in sports medicine, ultimately benefiting recreational athletes and orthopedic patients. Their main research areas include the prevention and rehabilitation of sports injuries, with an emphasis on health monitoring and load management, early detection of injury-relevant physical deficits, objectification and individualization of diagnoses and „return-to-sport“ decisions, and the development of sport-specific training and therapy concepts.

Jörg Spörri is a former athlete of the Swiss-Ski team and works closely together with national and international sport organizations. He has an excellent methodological background in epidemiology, performance diagnostics, sports biomechanics and musculoskeletal imaging, as well as many years of experience in the management of translational research projects. Jörg Spörri has published over 130 peer-reviewed scientific papers to date.