Annegret Mündermann

Annegret Mündermann is a German researcher at the Schulthess Clinic Zurich and at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel. She is an adjunct professor in the field of Regenerative Medicine & Biomechanics.

Her main research focus lies in outcome research in orthopaedics and on the impact of biomechanics in the development and progression of osteoarthritis and the accompanying diagnosis and treatment of the musculoskeletal system.

She is a member of various national and international societies in the fields of biomechanics and osteoarthritis, including the International Society of Biomechanics, European Society of Biomechanics, the German Society of Clinical Movement Science and the Osteoarthritis Research Society International. From 2013 to 2024, she was a board member of the German Society of Biomechanics (DGfB), where she served as Secretary General, and she has been part of the Board Nominating Committee, Award and Nomination Committee, Research and Training Committee of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) since 2023. in 2015, she was runner up for the Maurice E. Müller Award (Swiss Orthopaedics). In 2023, she was runner up for the Best Presentation Award at the DJO GLOBAL from the Society of Traumatology and Orthopaedics in Sports (GOTS), Runner up.