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Congratulations to our doctoral candidate Birte Coppers from Uniklinikum Erlangen & FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg on winning the Young Scholar Award at the Hand and Wrist Biomechanics International special session at #ISB2025 for her outstanding work on 'Electromyography alterations in power and precisi...

The EmpkinS social media channels are going on summer break ⛱ Our EmpkinS office would also like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Nathalie Falk for her excellent social media and website support over the past few months. 🎉😊 After a challenging first half of the year, we are now using the ...

EmpkinS PI Dr.-Ing. habil. Jörg Miehling (subproject C02 and C03) has successfully completed his habilitation in the field of human-centered engineering processes! Congratulations from the entire EmpkinS team on this remarkable achievement! 🏆🥳🥂✨ Here, you can learn more about Jörg's motivation an...

Tabea Ott, former EmpkinS doctoral researcher and now PI of the EmpkinS WIKO project, has been awarded first place for her dissertation in the Science Prize for the Dialogue between Science and Theology, presented by the Görres-Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Wissenschaft e.V. and the Apfelbaum Foundati...

Months of preparation, weeks of rehearsal, one day of performance, and one day of excited waiting. The two most important days of the year are behind us! 🏆 PIs preparing remarkable talks and cleaning an entire building. Postdocs who are plastering a wall. Doctoral candidates fighting not just for th...

Are you interested in movement and its effects on the human body and psyche? Would you like to support us in our project and be a part of it? Then you are exactly right with us! As part of our research project, we are looking for participants to take part in a movement study for sensor-based measure...

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Weise, Chair of Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Health Technology, associated member and future EmpkinS PI, has recently received the Teaching Award from her psychology students. This achievement is especially remarkable considering that Cornelia joined FAU just a year ago. Wha...

Our colleague and former EmpkinS doctoral candidate Dr.-Ing. Nikita Shanin has received the best Ph.D. Thesis Award at the EuCNC & 6G summit! Congratulations! 🎉 More than 40 recent Ph.D. graduates submitted their applications this year. The jury composed of professors and industry representat...

The EmpkinS family met again! From June 5-6, 2025, nearly 60 EmpkinS members gathered at the charming Benediktinerabtei Kloster Plankstetten for the 4th general meeting. Please find out more about these two inspiring days here.

In numerous podcasts, researchers from EmpkinS share a wide range of exciting topics, latest research findings, and innovative developments with a broad audience. These discussions aim to make complex scientific concepts more accessible and engaging for everyone. We invite you to tune in and listen ...