Awards

The VDE Bayern Award, celebrating outstanding achievements in the fields of "Science," "Industry," and "School," was presented for the 16th time at the Bayerischer Hof in Munich on November 21, 2024. Radar-based sensing is an innovative method for measuring vital parameters, allowing for contactl...

EmpkinS doctoral candidate Dat Thanh Nguyen had the incredible opportunity to attend the 2024 Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), a prestigious networking conference that brings together 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science. Over the course of a week, participant...

We are thrilled that Marius Schmidt, one of our talented EmpkinS PhD candidates, participated in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2024 in Washington, DC, and won the Audience Choice Award! Marius's dedication and hard work shine through, and we c...

EmpkinS researchers Nikita Shanin, Bernhard Schmauss, Laura Cottatellucci, and Robert Schober have received the Best Paper Award 2023 from the TAOS technical committee (TC) of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) for their Globecom 2023 paper: “EH Modelling and Achievable Rate for FSO SWIPT Syst...

We're thrilled to announce that our Doctoral Candidates Eva Maria Hille and Tabea Ott are now part of the prestigious ''bidt Scholarship'' (Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation). In today’s world, basic digitalization skills are essential for researchers across all disciplin...

We are very excited to announce that, our PI from sub-project B01, Prof. Dr. André Kaup, has been elected a full member of Class VI – Technical and Environmental Sciences of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). The EASA is a European organization that promotes scientific and societal...

We are pleased to announce that Vanessa Wirth, on behalf of her co-authors, won the Digital Rheumatology Research Award 2024 for the paper "ShaRPy: Shape Reconstruction and Hand Pose Estimation from RGB-D with Uncertainty", previously published at IEEE/CVF ICCVW. Among all nominations, this award i...

Nikita Shanin won the 2nd Prize at the Four-Minute-Thesis (4MT) Competition organized by the IEEE Communications Society. The 4MT Competition challenged PhD students to explain their research topic to a broad non-specialist audience in just 4 minutes. In the preliminary round of the competition, the...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

We congratulate Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun for receiving the prestigious ERC Starting Grant! With 1,5 Million Euros allocated to 5 research-years Prof. Dr. Braun and his team will research ethical questions in the realm of "digital twins", which are simulations of certain body-functions or organs w...

Prof. Dr. Schett (D01) has been awarded one of the highest honors: the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most important German research funding prize! Prof. Dr. Georg Schett is one of the leading international scientists in the field of inflammation and immune medicine with groundbreaking find...

We cordially congratulate Alexander German (sub-project B04) for being named the FAU Innovator 2022! In the category of student-innovators, Alexander satisfied the jury with his principle of “Voxelomics”. Voxel are spatial imaging, which help in visualizing physical tissue properties in radiologi...