Awards

The VDE Bayern Award, celebrating outstanding achievements in the fields of "Science," "Industry," and "School," was presented for the 16th time at the Bayerischer Hof in Munich on November 21, 2024. Radar-based sensing is an innovative method for measuring vital parameters, allowing for contactl...

We are thrilled that Marius Schmidt, one of our talented EmpkinS PhD candidates, participated in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2024 in Washington, DC, and won the Audience Choice Award! Marius's dedication and hard work shine through, and we c...

EmpkinS researchers Nikita Shanin, Bernhard Schmauss, Laura Cottatellucci, and Robert Schober have received the Best Paper Award 2023 from the TAOS technical committee (TC) of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) for their Globecom 2023 paper: “EH Modelling and Achievable Rate for FSO SWIPT Syst...

We're thrilled to announce that our Doctoral Candidates Eva Maria Hille and Tabea Ott are now part of the prestigious ''bidt Scholarship'' (Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation). In today’s world, basic digitalization skills are essential for researchers across all disciplin...

We are very excited to announce that, our PI from sub-project B01, Prof. Dr. André Kaup, has been elected a full member of Class VI – Technical and Environmental Sciences of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). The EASA is a European organization that promotes scientific and societal...

We are pleased to announce that Vanessa Wirth, on behalf of her co-authors, won the Digital Rheumatology Research Award 2024 for the paper "ShaRPy: Shape Reconstruction and Hand Pose Estimation from RGB-D with Uncertainty", previously published at IEEE/CVF ICCVW. Among all nominations, this award i...

Nikita Shanin won the 2nd Prize at the Four-Minute-Thesis (4MT) Competition organized by the IEEE Communications Society. The 4MT Competition challenged PhD students to explain their research topic to a broad non-specialist audience in just 4 minutes. In the preliminary round of the competition, the...

The "Highly Cited Researchers List" also lists the 7127 most influential researchers worldwide in 2023. With 336 researchers on the list, Germany is in 4th place. Prof. Dr. Robert Schober, PI in our EmpkinS project B02, is once again one of the most cited scientists in his field. The Highly Cited ...

We’re super proud of EmpkinS student Victoria Müller (MaD Lab), who participated in the ZEISS Women Award. Out of a pool of nearly 200 participants, Victoria was voted among the Top 10 finalists and was invited to the award ceremony in Dresden. Victoria consistently contributed to MaD Lab...