Awards

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...

PD Dr. Anna-Maria Liphardt, PI in sub-project D01 and the iRTG, received the Nello Pace Award at the International Society for Gravitational Physiology (ISGP) alongside Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo. This recognition is particularly significant and a great honor, as it acknowledges their contributions t...

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...