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On April 3, 2025, the second Science Slam took place at the Zukunftsmuseum Nürnberg. In front of a full house, five slammers from diverse disciplines competed against one another. Among them was Marius Schmidt, a doctoral candidate in the EmpkinS subproject A05. He demonstrated the true power of eng...

The 4th German Psychotherapy Congress 2025 takes place under the motto 'For Good Reason.' EmpkinS scientists Dr. Lena Gmelch and Doctoral Candidate Lydia Rupp are both honored to present a talk at the conference in Berlin. For both, this is a great opportunity to present preliminary results from...

In March 2025, Prof. Dr. Nicolas Rohleder and Dr.-Ing. Robert Richer presented their latest research updates on contactless stress assessment through body movements and digital biomarkers at the 82nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine in Seattle. The...

Kann ein Laser erkennen, ob du traurig bist? In unserer neuen Podcast-Folge haben wir gleich zwei Gäste: Tabea Ott und Marius Schmidt von der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Sie forschen im Sonderforschungsbereich CRC EmpkinS - Empathokinaesthetic Sensor Technology unt...

Dr. Miehling is now a member of the Editorial Board of the renowned journal Scientific Reports in the field of Biomedical Engineering. Scientific Reports is an interdisciplinary open access journal from Nature Portfolio and the 5th most-cited journal worldwide. The Editorial Board is a crucial compo...

On 20 March 2025, EmpkinS members from Erlangen, Munich, Bonn, and Hamburg came together again to further plan and discuss the individual collaborative networks of the sub-projects for the second funding phase. The agenda of the all-day workshop included an RDM workshop presented by Dr.-Ing. Jan Sch...

The entire EmpkinS team extends heartfelt congratulations to Tabea Ott, a young researcher in subproject E, on successfully defending her dissertation entitled “Between invisibility and exposure. Towards a theological ethics of visibility in the digitalised healthcare system,” which took place on Ma...

🚀 Take part in our stress study - we are looking for participants! Are you interested in stress and its effects on the body and mind? Then you now have the chance to actively contribute to research! We are looking for participants for a psychological study that will take place in our laborator...

We are thrilled to announce that Birte Coppers, along with her co-authors Simon Heinrich, Koray Tascilar, Uday Phutane, Arnd Kleyer, David Simon, Johanna Bräunig, Johann Penner, Martin Vossiek, Verena Schönau, Sara Bayat, Georg Schett, Sigrid Leyendecker, and Anna-Maria Liphardt, have published gro...

Congratulations Dr.-Ing. Robert Richer! Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (MaD) PhD #34 for his dissertation on Digital Health Psychology - Wearable and Mobile Technologies to Advance Biopsychological Stress Research - one of our fantastic PhinisheD students of CRC Em...