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On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, the inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun took place at the International Forum. The theme of the well-attended inaugural lecture by Professor Dr. Matthias Braun, who has been Chair of (Social) Ethics since October 2022, was "Vulnerable Bodies. Critique of ...

The "Highly Cited Researchers List" also lists the 7127 most influential researchers worldwide in 2023. With 336 researchers on the list, Germany is in 4th place. Prof. Dr. Robert Schober, PI in our EmpkinS project B02, is once again one of the most cited scientists in his field. The Highly Cited ...

We’re super proud of EmpkinS student Victoria Müller (MaD Lab), who participated in the ZEISS Women Award. Out of a pool of nearly 200 participants, Victoria was voted among the Top 10 finalists and was invited to the award ceremony in Dresden. Victoria consistently contributed to MaD Lab...

Exciting news: Our postdoc Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Ullmann won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Sensors Conference in Vienna. The paper "Radar-Based Continuous Human Activity Recognition with Multi-Label Classification" is based on a cooperation with TU Delft. Ingrid had the opportunity to visit Delft last...

The Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) is awarding the Merit Medal three times this year for exceptional services to the university. Our PI Peter Dabrock is one of the dignitaries. Peter Dabrock has been a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Friedrich Alexander University for 13 years. He h...

Back from #ISPNE2023! Last week at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology in London, Luca Abel, Miriam Kurz, Felicitas Hauck, Veronika Ringgold, Nicolas Rohleder, and Robert Richer presented their latest research in the field of (digital) health psychology. ...

Exciting News! Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun, a renowned researcher in Social Ethics, has been honored with the prestigious Falling Walls Prize in the "SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES" category! Prof. Braun's groundbreaking work delves into the intersection of technology, ethics, and society, explori...

New publication online! The latest research article, “A Wireless Joint Communication and Localization EMG-Sensing Concept for Movement Disorder Assessment” by Stefan Brückner, Jasmin Kolpak, Fabian Michler, Nikita Shanin, Robert Schober, Amelie Hagelauer, Robert Weigel, Heiko Gaßner, Jürgen Winkler,...

We’re pleased to announce that the research of our EmpkinS Collaborative Research Center was awarded at this year's IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics Conference (BHI ’23) (https://bhi.embs.org/2023/) in Pittsburgh, USA!   The paper “Markerless RGB-D hand pose estimation for activity ...

Sara Bayat and Anna-Maria Liphardt (D01) were interviewed by Gesundheit Erlangen. Check out their post here: Gesundheit erlangen - Herbst 2023 (gesundheit-erlangen.com)

The Institute of Applied Dynamics (LTD) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, offers several student theses: Topics: “Dynamic simulation of human hand movements and analysis of biomarkers for inflammatory arthritis” Supervisors: M. Sc. Simon Heinrich For more information, ch...

We're thrilled to share that Viktoria Heimann, a part of our B01 team, has earned her Ph.D. last week. Congratulations, Dr. Viktoria Heimann, on this achievement! 🎉👩‍🎓 Viktoria's doctoral advisor, Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup, has been instrumental in guiding her throughout her academic journey. ...

Interdisciplinary Hand Symposium on October 4th and 5th 2023 Within the research activities of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1483 - EmpkinS (funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), www.empkins.de), the Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Universitä...

On July 28, 2023, the 16th Wissenschaftstag (Science Day) of the Metropolitan Region Nuremberg took center stage, with a spotlight on the theme "Mensch im Zentrum: Gesundheit – Innovation – Verantwortung" (Human at the Center: Health - Innovation - Responsibility). At this prestigious event, our CRC...

From 30.6 to 1.7, the Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, held an expert discussion on the topic "Solidarity in a Digital World. Intersectional dimensions of feminist-theological ethics". The two-day symposium opened with a public lecture by Prof. Hille Haker (Loyola Uni...

We are looking for participants for our D02 sub-project. We need 256 participants in total and 128 individuals with a current depressive episode. We would greatly appreciate if you took part in our study or forward this information to someone who might be interested! Participants can receive up to 4...

Prof. Katharina Schultebraucks from the NYU Grossmann School of Medicine gave a talk on "Scalable, automated, and feasible risk stratification of adverse mental health effects" on Thursday, June 22, 2023, at 12:30 at Carl-Thiersch-Straße 2b in Erlangen. Digital technologies and advances in computat...

A team of superlatives: EmpkinS PhD students once again competed against other groups from all over the world in several categories of the Student Design Competitions at the International Microwave Symposium in San Diego, USA, and won four times against very strong competition:- 1st place in Noncont...