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🏆 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! 💐

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 ...