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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. |
On October 1, 2026, Lydia Rupp hosted a Stress Management workshop for EmpkinS. The session began by clarifying what stress is and which factors commonly contribute to it, laying a foundation for recognizing how stress shows up in day-to-day work and life. Participants then identified and reflected ...
Wir suchen aktuell Teilnehmende für unsere Studie zur Erfassung von Bewegungen und Atemmustern. Dabei simulieren Sie in einem Bett liegend verschiedene Alltagsbewegungen und Atemmuster. Währenddessen zeichnen wir Ihre Bewegungen mithilfe von Radarsensoren und Referenzgeräten auf.
➡️ Ziel der Stud...
We are delighted to share that Stefan Brückner's article, “A Wireless Joint Communication and Localization EMG-Sensing Concept for Movement Disorder Assessment”, has been recognized as one of the 5 Most Popular Articles by Downloads in August 2026 in the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Micr...
New Article in the American Journal of Bioethics: "Extending Epistemic Injustice in Bioethics: Why Language Matters" - congratulations to the authors Denise Wallat & Eva Maria Hille! 👏🎉
Here’s the core idea in brief: By placing language and norms at the core of the discourse on epistemic inju...
We are delighted to congratulate Julian from subproject C03 on successfully defending his dissertation last week — with distinction! 🏆
In his thesis, Investigating Postural Control in Parkinson’s Disease Using Neuromusculoskeletal Simulations, Julian explored one of the key questions in movement sc...
👏 Congratulations to our former doctoral researcher Eva Maria Hille on receiving the "Naturwissenschaft und Theologie" Science Prize, awarded by the Görres-Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Wissenschaft e.V. and the Stiftung Apfelbaum for her outstanding dissertation “Unbiased AI? Ein vulnerabilitätssensi...
📚✨ Yesterday's workshop was all about ethics in research, ethics applications, and study protocols.
Together, we reflected on the ethical issues that can arise in our own research, the responsibilities we have as researchers, and what ethics really means in the context of scientific work.
We a...