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]

A paper outlining the benefits of a mechatronic ski binding is published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. The paper is a result of the work done at the professorship.  The paper can be downloaded free of charge for 50 days via this link: … [read more]

Last month, a delegation from the German Sport University Cologne visited us. Prof. Uwe Kersting and his two PhD Students travelled all the way to Munich to see our lab and to discuss about common research topics. We could find some common work to do on the theme shoe-surface interaction. We would… [read more]

Some measurements were done last week in the hospital Rechts der Isar at the professorship for experimental magnetic resonance tomography (Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Karampinos). A model phantom was studied during the measurements. the phantom could represent the properties of a human leg. These measures… [read more]

During the course "Workshop Sporttechnology", 16 students and their supervisors were three days long on the Zugspitze... [read more]

The winners of theCAD competition in the summer term 2021 have been announced! They include the ScanMate, a customized inliner protector, the BeerProtect a beer mug lid to go, an ergonomic and customized pair of ski goggles with interchangeable lenses, and the Ergo-Bikinator 3000, an ergonomic bike… [read more]

As part of automatica sprint 2021, we presented the topic "Knee Injury Prevenion" with our own brand room and live presentation. Here you can see the video for our project: [read more]

Our former research associate, Philipp KOPP, has succeeded and can now call himself "Dr. Kopp". The title of his publication-based dissertation at the TUM Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences is: "Motivation, Volition, and Gym Attendance - A Longitudinal Prospective Study". The thesis can be… [read more]