Andrea Schaller

Andrea Schaller (born 14 September 1976) is a German former footballer who became an academic specializing in sports medicine as a professor at the German Sport University Cologne and Bundeswehr University Munich.

Football
Schaller played football as a goalkeeper. She played 18 matches in the Frauen-Bundesliga for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr, from 1999 through 2005, and made one appearance for the Germany women's national football team in 2000. She was also part of Germany's squad for the women's football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but did not play in any matches. Looking back on that time in a 2020 interview, she describes it as a period of failure, self-doubt, and injuries.

Academic career
Following her athletic career, Schaller became an academic researcher in sports medicine. As an undergraduate, she studied sports therapy at the German Sport University Cologne and epidemiology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and began working as a sports therapist. She completed a Ph.D. in 2009 on the relation between sports medicine and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. From 2016 to 2018 she worked for the IST-Hochschule für Management in Düsseldorf, in 2018 she became a professor at the German Sport University Cologne, and in 2023 she became Professor of Health, Workplace Health Promotion and Prevention in the Department of Human Sciences at Bundeswehr University Munich.