Year: 2022

In today’s EmpkinS Lecture Series, Prof. Dr. med. Ostgathe gave insights into the research and work of palliative care. His talk, titled "The last phase of life: an issue to be researched?", went into topics concerning the legal/ethical framework of palliative medicine and the patients’ consent to s...

On October 20th in our Lecture Series Dr. sport.science Anna-Maria Liphardt gave an insight into her reasearch about "Hand function in inflammatory arthritis". Inflammatory rheumatic diseases affect physical function in general and very often hand function is impaired. Although hand function in r...

On October 18th, 2022, Pfauennest celebrated the grand opening of its new daycare facility “Pfauennest II”. The new facility is connected to the original through a multipurpose room, which can be used for sports activities and gatherings. In addition to families and children visiting the event, t...

Funded by EmpkinS, Ingrid Ullmann, associated post-doc in projects A01 and B03, spends a month at the Microwave Sensing, Signals and Systems group at Delft University of Technology as a guest researcher. The Microwave Sensing, Signals and Systems group, chaired by Prof. Alexander Yarovoy, is one of...

On September 27th, Björn Eskofier, Martin Vossiek, Anne Koelewijn and Daniel Krauss organised a workshop called „1st Intl. Symposium on Understanding Inner States of Humans using Measurements of ‚Invisibles‘ – ‚Empatho-Kineasthetic‘ Sensing“ at BHI (IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical a...

In July 2022, Prof. Dr. med. univ. Georg Schett (Sub-project D02) recieved his certificate for becoming a member of Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V. – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. We cordially congratulate Prof. Dr. Schett for gaining this prestigious position among ...

The first Women-in-EmpkinS day took place on September 21st. Invited were all #female scientific employees of the CRC from the student assistants to the professors. It was a long day that started very early in the morning but it was worth it. The destination of the trip was the Fraunhofer Researc...

We cordially congratulate Tabea Ott from sub-project E for winning the Young Scholar’s Paper Award of Societas Ethica for her outstanding presentation on “Patients in Health Care as Data Assemblages – a Threat to Human Integrity?” in Zurich, Switzerland. ? She received the award on the 27th of Au...

Congratulations, Markus Heyder, for this great success at the Machine Learning in Engineering Initiative Summer School During the first summer school of the Hamburg Initiative “Machine Learning in Engineering” our PhD student Markus Heyder was extremely successful in presenting his EmpkinS PhD topi...

We are glad to announce that EmpkinS has a new Youtube Channel! On this channel you can learn more about the projects of this CRC and dive into our science and innovative work. The channel can be found here:   Meanwhile we also published our introduction video about EmpkinS there. C...