Prof (PhD) Christian Puta

Prof Christian Puta is a professor and interim chair of Sports Medicine and Health Promotion at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. His academic background is in sports science with a focus on prevention and rehabilitation. His research areas include Immunobiology and physiology of physical activity, post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS), exercise intolerance and post-exertional malaise (PEM), clinical sciences, computational immunobiology, as well as pain and sensory-motor control. Since 2024, Prof Puta has been affiliated with the Department for Internal Medicine IV (Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases) at Jena University Clinic, where he has been involved in research on post-COVID syndrom and ME/CFS as a member of the "WATCH" collaborative research project. Within "WATCH", he has investigated intervention control of physical intolerance by means of so-called wearable integrated diagnostics. Since late 2024, Prof Puta leads the joint research project "Identification of Biopathological Signatures of Post-exertional Malaise in ME/CFS (BioSig-PEM)", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), which aims to identify central pathophysiological signatures of PEM phenotypes in ME/CFS patients with the help of fitness trackers, molecular and immunological as well as imaging methods.