Awards

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...

We are proud to announce that our P.I. of subproject C02, Dr.Ing. Jörg Miehling, becomes funding member of the Emerging Talents Initiative. He will be supported by the ETI in the twelve-month-period January 2023 - January 2024.   For more information about the ETI please visit: https://ww...

We are happy to announce that two of our EmpkinS-PIs, Prof. Dr. med. Georg Schett (B02) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober (D01) were recognized as members of the „Highly Cited Researchers List“! This list contains 6,938 of the most influential scientists from around the globe. 396 scientists from Ge...