Daniel Memmert is a Professor and the Executive Head of the Institute of Exercise Training and Sport Informatics at the German Sport University Cologne (GSUC). From 2009 to 2016, he was head at the Institute for Cognition and Sports Game Research at GSUC. In 2003, he earned a PhD (Award: DVS Young Scientist Award, Bronze) and habilitated in 2008 at the Elite University of Heidelberg (Award: DOSB Science Award, Bronze). In 2014, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna. His scientific work focuses on movement science (cognition and motor function), sports psychology (attention and motivation), and computer science in sports (big data, pattern recognition, and simulation). According to a publicly accessible database by Elsevier of the world's top 100,000 scientists, he ranks first in Germany in the field of Sport Science and eighth in the world in the field of Sports Science/Experimental Psychology. He has an H-index of 75 (i10-index 275) and has raised more than ten million euros in third-party funding, including nine DFG projects in the field of computer science and five DFG projects in the field of psychology. In addition, he has published more than 350 articles in international journals, 55 books, and 50 book chapters.

Since 2023, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology, and since 2025 he has been Executive Editor for the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology . He holds coaching licenses in the sports of soccer, tennis, snowboarding, as well as alpine skiing. His institute cooperates/cooperated with various soccer teams worldwide, the German national soccer team, and DAX companies and organized the first international master's degree course in Match Analysis.