PD Dr. Antje Hebestreit

• Development, application and evaluation of instruments for assessing dietary intake, dietary behaviour, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and their determinants
• Design and implementation of small and large scale epidemiological studies for investigating lifestyle-related diseases in special populations, such as children
• Investigation of risk factors for obesity, metabolic health and musculoskeletal health in high and low income countries

• German Nutrition Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung / DGE)
• Network Nutrition-Development-Cooperation (Arbeitskreis für Ernährung, Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit / AEEZ)

• Cross-departmental Center B: Data Science
• Data competence center for the Bremen region. “HealthyPlanet": Satellite-based data of environmental factors and its impact on health and health behaviors and Citizen Science project “Guardians of the Hedgehogs”
• Determinants of eating behaviour in European children, adolescents and their parents - I.Family study
• Epidemiological methods and experiences in research projects on child and adolescent health
• Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen
• Monitoring of physical activity and promotion of physical activity - development of indicators for the prevention indicator system of the federal states
• Wearable sensor assessment of physical and eating behaviours

Selected BIPS-Publications

• Articles with peer review

• Bouchan J, Fezeu LK, Vetrovsky T, Elavsky S, Delestre F, De Vylder F, Buck C, Hebestreit A, Harrington JM, Hayes G, Donnelly A, Oppert J-M, Cardon G. Acceptability of intensive ambulatory assessment combining four wearable sensors and Ecological Momentary Assessment to assess physical and eating behaviors in adults: The WEALTH Project. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour. 2026;
• Hayes G, Buck C, Cardon G, Cimler R, Elavsky S, Fezeu LK, Harrington JM, Kühnová J, Oppert J-M, Sigcha L, Van de Ven P, Vetrovsky T, Woods C, Hebestreit A, Donnelly A. Standardized methods for evaluating physical and eating behaviours: The wearable sensor - Assessment of physical and eating Behaviours "WEALTH" project. JMIR Research Protocols. 2026;
  https://doi.org/10.2196/70186
• Iqbal K, Chatziangelousi E, Wolters M, Intemann T, Englert K, Hebestreit A, Aleksandrova K. Reference curves for metabolic syndrome indicators in children and adolescents: A global systematic review. Current Obesity Reports. 2026;15(1):3.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-025-00679-z
• Loganathan GC, Buck C, Williams G, Veidebaum T, Tornaritis M, Molnár D, Miguel-Berges ML, Lissner L, Formisano A, De Henauw S, Baran J, Hebestreit A, Sina E. Associations between time spent with digital media and body image among European adolescents. BMC Pediatrics. 2026;
• Wang M, Wu Y, Li M, Guan H, Gao X, Zhang P, Wang Y, Nur E, Hebestreit A, Wang H-J, Sun L, Wang H. Live-streamed exercise intervention in pregnant women with MASLD (Live-MALSD): Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2026;
• Wang Y, Wang H, Zhang P, Gu J, Shen F, Qiu D, Yang Y, Yang S, Wang M, Wu Y, Nur E, Xu M, Qi L, Hebestreit A, Wang H-J, Li L. Tiered school-family-clinic intervention for childhood obesity prevention in China: A nested cluster randomized controlled trial. Med. 2026;7:100894.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2025.100894
• Cheng L, Pohlabeln H, Wolters M, Ahrens W, Siani A, Veidebaum T, Tornaritis M, Molnár D, Eiben G, Hunsberger M, De Henauw S, Moreno LA, Hebestreit A, on behalf of the IDEFICS and I.Family consortia. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity modulates the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and bone stiffness in European children and adolescents. Nutrition Research. 2025;133:64-77.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nutres.2024.10.003
• Do S, Till M, Messing S, Gelius P, Brandes M, Finger JD, Oberwöhrmann S, Forberger S, Hebestreit A. Physical activity promotion in the early childcare setting: A content analysis of the federal-state-wide educational framework plans in Germany. BMC Public Health. 2025;25:2759.
  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23798-7
• Janek M, Kuhnova J, Cardon G, Van Dyck D, Cimler R, Elavsky S, Fezeu LK, Oppert J-M, Buck C, Hebestreit A, Harrington JM, Sigcha L, Van de Ven P, Donnelly A, Vetrovsky T, on behalf of the WEALTH consortium. Ecological momentary assessment of physical and eating behaviours: The WEALTH feasibility and optimisation study with recommendations for large-scale data collection. PLOS ONE. 2025;20(2):e0318772.
  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318772
• Jilani H, Intemann T, Eiben G, Lauria F, Lissner L, Michels N, Molnár D, Moreno LA, Pala V, Tornaritis M, Veidebaum T, Ahrens W, Hebestreit A, on behalf of the I.Family consortium. Association of ability to rank sweet and fat taste intensities with sweet and fat food propensity ratios of children, adolescents and adults: The I.Family study. European Journal of Nutrition. 2025;64:42.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-024-03538-0
• Liu Y, Wang K, Zhou Y, Yan S, Hebestreit A, Wang H-J. Wearable camera based objective screen time and its combined associations with dietary and physical activity factors in relation to childhood obesity. Nutrients. 2025;17(18):2990.
  https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17182990
• Demetriou Y, Beck F, Sturm D, Abu Omar K, Forberger S, Hebestreit A, Hohmann A, Hülse H, Kläber M, Kobel S, Köhler K, König S, Krug S, Manz K, Messing S, Mutz M, Niermann C, Niessner C, Schienkiewitz A, Schmidt S, Schnitzius M, Siener M, Speer A, Wagner P, Wäsche H, Reimers AK. Germany's 2022 report card on physical activity for children and adolescents. German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research. 2024;54(2):260-275.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12662-024-00946-6
• Do S, Didelez V, Börnhorst C, Coumans J, Reisch LA, Danner U, Russo P, Veidebaum T, Tornaritis M, Molnár D, Hunsberger M, De Henauw S, Moreno LA, Ahrens W, Hebestreit A, on behalf of the IDEFICS and I.Family consortia. The role of psychosocial well-being and emotion-driven impulsiveness in food choices of European adolescents. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2024;21:1.
  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-023-01551-w
• Hebestreit A, Sina E. Wirkungen digitaler Medien auf die Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Schwerpunkt auf dem Verzehr ungesunder Lebensmittel. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz. 2024;67(3):292-299.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-024-03834-4

• Guidelines and reports

• Vos-Wendel W, Kokolakakis T, Rocha PM, Hebestreit A, Freiberg M, Ferre Cullen B, Silva FJd, Capranica L. Towards harmonisation of sport and physical activity measurement in the European Union. Advisory report on harmonising sport statistics: Results of Task Force subgroup 2. Brussels, Belgium. 2025.
  https://doi.org/10.2797/6055140

• Presentations at scientific meetings/conferences

• Swenne A, Hebestreit A, Sigcha L, Oppert J-M, Cimler R, Elavsky S, Vetrovsky T, Donnelly A, Buck C. Classification of physical behaviours using hip- and wrist-worn accelerometry. Toronto, Canada. 2025.

• Further Publications

• Top Ten Outstanding Scientific Achievements in China's Children's and Adolescents' Health
  Unesco Chair (2025)
• Aufnahme als Mitglied im AcademiaNet
  The Swiss National Science Foundation (2020)
  Anerkennung als exzellente Wissenschaftlerin in der Leibniz‐Gemeinschaft
• Aufnahme in das Mentoring-Programm der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
  Leibniz Gemeinschaft (2013)
  Besondere Eignung für eine Karriere auf höchster Leitungsebene
• Doctoral Scholarship
  Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen (2000)
  Promotionsstipendium

• Seminar Evidence-based health care, Master of Public Health programme at the University of Bremen

• Seminar "Public Health Nutrition", Public Health B.A.,Bachelor, Universität Bremen