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The first Women-in-EmpkinS day took place on September 21st. Invited were all #female scientific employees of the CRC from the student assistants to the professors. It was a long day that started very early in the morning but it was worth it. The destination of the trip was the Fraunhofer Researc...

We cordially congratulate Tabea Ott from sub-project E for winning the Young Scholar’s Paper Award of Societas Ethica for her outstanding presentation on “Patients in Health Care as Data Assemblages – a Threat to Human Integrity?” in Zurich, Switzerland. ? She received the award on the 27th of Au...

Congratulations, Markus Heyder, for this great success at the Machine Learning in Engineering Initiative Summer School During the first summer school of the Hamburg Initiative “Machine Learning in Engineering” our PhD student Markus Heyder was extremely successful in presenting his EmpkinS PhD topi...

We are glad to announce that EmpkinS has a new Youtube Channel! On this channel you can learn more about the projects of this CRC and dive into our science and innovative work. The channel can be found here:   Meanwhile we also published our introduction video about EmpkinS there. C...

Our PhD students Hui Lu from the Institute of High-Frequency Technology at TUHH and Julia Yip from the Department of Palliative Care at the Anesthesiology Clinic of the University Hospital Erlangen won the Best Poster Award of the Physionet Challenge 2022

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Weigel gets awarded with the Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. He is considered to be one of the leading researchers worldwide in the field of technical electronics and was honored for his engagement and merits.

"Parkinson's Disease Neurodegenerative Movement Disorders"   In his presentation Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Winkler showed the audience how patients with Parkinson's disease move and walk (asymmetric and slow).   He also explained for example how exposure to pesticides triples the r...

On July 21st, our scientists got an introduction to the gender, diversity and family-friendliness measures of FAU and also insights to equal opportunity needs and measures. Speaker were Dipl.-Psych. Heidrun Stollberg from FAU´s family service and Dr. Marion Kämmlein. She works in the Gender and Dive...

Between the 26th and 29th of June, five of our researchers represented our CRC EmpkinS at the European Society of Biomechanics in the city of Porto, Portugal. The ESB organises an annual exhibition about different topics in the field of Biomechanics. At the event itself our researchers Jörg Mi...