Author: Michael Osbeck

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...

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...

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...