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We are pleased to announce that Marie Oesten, a doctoral researcher in subproject D05, has received the Vera-Dammann-Prize 2024 for her Master's Thesis titled 'Radar-Based Investigation of Pulse Wave and Heart Sound Propagation.' The award was presented on November 13th and 14th in Leipzig by the Fa...

Check out Birte Coppers new article “Hand function impairments are more pronounced in female RA and PsA patients and also found in patients without concurrent hand inflammation”, which has now been published in the latest issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (MSSE).

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In May 2025, Iris visited the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) at the University of Auckland, where she worked with Dr. Julie Choisne on musculoskeletal modeling. During her three-week stay, she successfully created a contact- and ligament-guided knee joint model based on CT data, laying the ...

Hi everybody!

My name is Lukas and I just started working as a research associate at the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics at FAU in September. I previously completed my Master's thesis in electrical engineering there before. Originally I come from a small village near Crailsheim in Baden-Wür...

The entire EmpkinS team extends heartfelt congratulations to Birte Coppers, a Doctoral researcher in subproject D01, on successfully defending her dissertation entitled “Identification of disease-specific biomechanical markers of hand function in inflammatory arthritis"! 🥳

Congratulations from al...