My name is Katharina Gatterer and I am a senior researcher at the Institute for Sports Medicine, Alpine Medicine and Health Tourism at the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT) in Hall in Tyrol, Austria. I graduated from the University of Innsbruck in 2014 with a master’s degree as Teacher in Physical Education and English. In April 2020, I completed the PhD programme in sports medicine, health tourism and leisure sciences at the UMIT. My research focus lies in social sciences focusing on doping prevention of adolescent athletes. In detail, I am aiming to better understand the needs of athletes at the beginning of their career with respect to preventing doping behaviour. In the long run, results of my research shall inform the content of currently existing and future doping prevention programmes.

I am a Ph.D. graduate student at the Pennsylvania State University, focusing on the History and Philosophy of Sport in the department of Kinesiology. My research centers on the philosophy of sport and specifically on the ethics of doping to enhance performance. I am currently writing a dissertation aimed at illuminating the nature of the following three core anti-doping concepts: Health, Natural Talent/Performance, and the Spirit of Sport. These concepts, and their conceptualization, play a central role in the management of athletes by providing an ideal of sport and a justification to ban certain substances. My research will illuminate various conceptualizations and how these problematize the justification of the anti-doping movement.