Year: 2022

Our PhD students Hui Lu from the Institute of High-Frequency Technology at TUHH and Julia Yip from the Department of Palliative Care at the Anesthesiology Clinic of the University Hospital Erlangen won the Best Poster Award of the Physionet Challenge 2022

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Weigel gets awarded with the Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. He is considered to be one of the leading researchers worldwide in the field of technical electronics and was honored for his engagement and merits.

"Parkinson's Disease Neurodegenerative Movement Disorders"   In his presentation Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Winkler showed the audience how patients with Parkinson's disease move and walk (asymmetric and slow).   He also explained for example how exposure to pesticides triples the r...

On July 21st, our scientists got an introduction to the gender, diversity and family-friendliness measures of FAU and also insights to equal opportunity needs and measures. Speaker were Dipl.-Psych. Heidrun Stollberg from FAU´s family service and Dr. Marion Kämmlein. She works in the Gender and Dive...

Between the 26th and 29th of June, five of our researchers represented our CRC EmpkinS at the European Society of Biomechanics in the city of Porto, Portugal. The ESB organises an annual exhibition about different topics in the field of Biomechanics. At the event itself our researchers Jörg Mi...

The second Satus Seminar took place on 21st of July, 2022. It consisted of poster presentations by every doctoral candidate. At the end they received feedback on their presentations and the "Best Poster Award" was awarded. This time Vanessa Wirth got the most votes and won the first place. The ru...

On the 7th of July Prof. Dr. Roberto Merletti did a two part guest sEMG lecture about „EMG Generals, physiological aspects“ and „Aspects for engineers like design of electrodes, signal conditioning etc.“

On June 23rd we had another EmpkinS Lecture, but this time with Dr.-Ing. Jörg Miehling, P.I. of subprojects C02 & C03.   In his lecture he spoke about "Musculoskeletal Modeling and Simulation".

On May 19th we had another lecture from our #lectureseries. In this one Prof. Dr. Anne Koelewijn spoke about "Gait Simulations for Prediction and Reconstruction".