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… [read more]

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

Bringing together research and teaching in our method seminar Sports Technology [read more]

SPGM Publication presented in the YouTube Channel of the Journal of Sports Engineering [read more]

SPGM research on injury prevention in alpine skiing on Swiss television [read more]

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… [read more]

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… [read more]

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

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… [read more]

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… [read more]