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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. |
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...
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! 💐