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The professorship welcomes Christian Fritzsche as research assistant. He has written his master thesis on Comparing Static and Dynamic Muscle Optimization with an Example of a Backbone Model at the professorship. He will be now working on the projects TheraTrain and FitFeet. We wish Mr. Fritzsche a…

The professorship welcomes Marie Hartmann as intern. She will be working on different projects of the professorship. We wish Ms. Hartmann a successful start.

Bringing together research and teaching in our method seminar Sports Technology

SPGM Publication presented in the YouTube Channel of the Journal of Sports Engineering

SPGM research on injury prevention in alpine skiing on Swiss television

On 3 December, the professorship celebrated the coming Christmas season with the Chair of Ergonomics at the Schlierseer Alm. After a short hike in the snow, all participants enjoyed the Glühwein and - due to corona - the delicious food around the fire outside with a nice view on the lake and…

The professorship welcomes Gheorghe Lisca as a PhD student. As a researcher, he developed Artificial Intelligence for controlling service and social robots. As an entrepreneur, he founded one start-up, and was the CTO of a second one. Now, he will explore Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms for…

Best Student Paper Award 2021 - 9th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support (icSPORTS) for the Professorship of Sports Equipment and Materials

Since September, our premises have been home to a cycling research tool - the idmatch bike-fitting system from Selle Italia. The system is currently used in a study to measure pressure distributions on road bike saddles in women's road cycling within the SHER project. With the help of the…

The Professorship of Sports Equipment and Materials gathered for a PhD student workshop at the Schneefernerhaus  Research Station on Zugspitze from October 11-12, 2021. The trip started with great weather and great views and ended with a misty ride on the Zugspitzbahn. Current research topics and…