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We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Cornelia Weise, Chair of Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Health Technology, has been appointed as the new co-spokesperson in the CRC 1483! With her extensive expertise, she will not only contribute to a new EmpkinS sub-project but also enrich the entir...

We are delighted to announce the successful completion of the PhD of our former associated EmpkinS doctoral candidate David Scherb at the KTmfk - Lehrstuhl für Konstruktionstechnik. In his dissertation titled “Simulative Design of wearable assistive devices using musculoskeletal human models at t...

On October 16, the first EmpkinS iRTG Kick-off event took place at the EmpkinS Lab in Erlangen. Prof. Dr. Nic Rohleder, PD Dr. Anna-Maria Liphardt, and iRTG Coordinator Dr. Nathalie Falk introduced the program of the integrated research training group, shared insights into a potential second funding...

The EmpkinS Family has a new member: meet Gwen!✨ Hi, I'm Gwen and I work as a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Engineering Design (KTmfk) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. I originally come from Magdeburg, but I completed my Master's degree in Medical Engineering at FAU. The...

Prof. Dr. Alexander Kölpin, PI in EmpkinS sub-project A04, will be awarded the IEEE Microwave Theory & Technology Society Microwave Application Award! 🎉 This recognition is for "outstanding contributions to interferometric radar technology for medical applications" - a field that has been his...

🏆 WiGeP Innovation Award 2025 in the field "Virtual product development"! Our group leader, PD Dr. Jörg Miehling (subprojects C02 and C03), along with former EmpkinS-associated doctoral researcher David Scherb (human-machine systems, TU Bergakademie Freiberg) and Patrick Steck (KTmfk), under the ...

My name is Theo and I'm from Athens, Greece. I did my Master's degree in Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine at the National Technical University of Athens. Now I'm looking forward to meeting and working with the people from EmpkinS. I just started working on sub-project C01, focusin...

Robert Richer was honored with this year's dissertation award by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Digitale Medizin e.V.! Congratulations, Robert! 🏆

Bringing - step 🦶 by step 🦶 - touchless and burdenfree sensor technology to palliative and end-of-life care. New interdisciplinary publication from EmpkinS doctoral candidat Julia Yip and her co-authors 📝 This is the first study to investigate continuous motion biomarkers in end-of-life patients und...

Have you ever wondered how much musculoskeletal optimizations like addBiomechanics or OpenSim RRA actually reflect a persons’ body constitution? From February to April 2025, Markus Gambietz (Sub-Project C01) stayed at Queensland University of Technology to find out! Learn more about Markus time i...