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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS! OUR OFFICE IS CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 8th, 2024.

Collaborative Research Centre
“EmpkinS” is a Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). We are in the first funding period (duration: July 2021 – June 2025).
The full title of EmpkinS is: „Empatho-Kinaesthetic Sensor Technology – Sensor Techniques and Data Analysis Methods for Empatho-Kinaesthetic Modeling and Condition monitoring”
The twelve-year research program of the CRC 1483 aims to open up completely new “digital” and patient-centered diagnosis and therapeutic options in medicine and psychology. |
Dr. Tabea Ott attended the annual conference of the Görres-Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Wissenschaft e.V. at the Katholische Akademie in Berlin, where she was honored with the first prize in "Natural Science and Theology". Congratulations on this outstanding achievement, Tabea! 💐
Hi, I’m Xiumei Li, but you can also call me Daria. I started my doctoral research at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing (LMS) at FAU in April. I’m originally from China and completed my master’s degree here at FAU as well.Currently, I’m working on FP2 of subproject B01, foc...
NEW EMPKINS STUDY "RadarBeat"
In this study, we aim to investigate how accurately radar sensors can measure heart rate compared to conventional ECG systems. For this purpose, your heart rate will be recorded using both a radar system and an ECG.
Do you want to participate? Register here: Radar...
Congratulations to our doctoral candidate Birte Coppers from Uniklinikum Erlangen & FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg on winning the Young Scholar Award at the Hand and Wrist Biomechanics International special session at #ISB2025 for her outstanding work on 'Electromyography alterations in power and precisi...
The EmpkinS social media channels are going on summer break ⛱
Our EmpkinS office would also like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Nathalie Falk for her excellent social media and website support over the past few months. 🎉😊
After a challenging first half of the year, we are now using the ...
EmpkinS PI Dr.-Ing. habil. Jörg Miehling (subproject C02 and C03) has successfully completed his habilitation in the field of human-centered engineering processes! Congratulations from the entire EmpkinS team on this remarkable achievement! 🏆🥳🥂✨
Here, you can learn more about Jörg's motivation an...
Tabea Ott, former EmpkinS doctoral researcher and now PI of the EmpkinS WIKO project, has been awarded first place for her dissertation in the Science Prize for the Dialogue between Science and Theology, presented by the Görres-Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Wissenschaft e.V. and the Apfelbaum Foundati...