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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...

On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, the inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun took place at the International Forum. The theme of the well-attended inaugural lecture by Professor Dr. Matthias Braun, who has been Chair of (Social) Ethics since October 2022, was "Vulnerable Bodies. Critique of ...

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...

Exciting news: Our postdoc Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Ullmann won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Sensors Conference in Vienna. The paper "Radar-Based Continuous Human Activity Recognition with Multi-Label Classification" is based on a cooperation with TU Delft. Ingrid had the opportunity to visit Delft last...

The Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) is awarding the Merit Medal three times this year for exceptional services to the university. Our PI Peter Dabrock is one of the dignitaries. Peter Dabrock has been a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Friedrich Alexander University for 13 years. He h...

Back from #ISPNE2023! Last week at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology in London, Luca Abel, Miriam Kurz, Felicitas Hauck, Veronika Ringgold, Nicolas Rohleder, and Robert Richer presented their latest research in the field of (digital) health psychology. ...

Exciting News! Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun, a renowned researcher in Social Ethics, has been honored with the prestigious Falling Walls Prize in the "SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES" category! Prof. Braun's groundbreaking work delves into the intersection of technology, ethics, and society, explori...

New publication online! The latest research article, “A Wireless Joint Communication and Localization EMG-Sensing Concept for Movement Disorder Assessment” by Stefan Brückner, Jasmin Kolpak, Fabian Michler, Nikita Shanin, Robert Schober, Amelie Hagelauer, Robert Weigel, Heiko Gaßner, Jürgen Winkler,...