The professorship welcomes Robin Compeyron as research assistant. He has written his master thesis on a novel method for observing the rubber stud's deformation of running shoes at the professorship. He will be now working on the project IndiSports and will be developing a 3d printed customized… [read more]

The Faculty of Sport and Health Sciencesc of the TU München around Prof Schaffrath and Mrs Romy Schwaiger (Arbeitsbereich Medien und Kommunikation) recently interviewed Prof. Senner and Philipp Kopp about our past research project "Sustainable Fitnessservice". The interview resulted in a very… [read more]

Runner-up Best Paper Award 2020 - Springer Journal Sports Engineering / ISEA for the Professorship of Sports Equipment and Materials [read more]

Mr. Robin Compeyron won the '2020 Student Project Competition' which was organized by International Sport Engineering Association (ISEA). As part of his master's thesis, he developed a novel method for observing the rubber stud's deformation of running shoes. Here, a short video of the project and… [read more]

Thanks to the kind support of Simi Reality Motion Systems GmbH, cutting movements in football could be recorded using a combination of marker-based and silhoutte-based motion capture. The generated motion data serve as input data for a digital multi-body human model which is coupled with an FEM… [read more]

The Professorship of Sport Equipment and Sport Materials around their authors Philipp Kopp und Prof. Senner was able to establish a cooperation with the authors of the Division of Sports Psychology at the University of Vienna (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gröpel, PhD) and the Chair of Psychology at the… [read more]

The professorship for Sports Equipment and Sports Materials participated in the 1st virtual TUM campus run from 25-26.06.2020. All in all, we were able to reach seventh place as a team among 36 participating teams for the selected 11 KM distance in a time of 53:08 minutes. Thanks to all employees,… [read more]

Scientific research assistant and akademischer Rat Aljoscha Hermann published with his co-author Prof. Senner a paper with the title Knee Injury Prevention in Alpine Skiing. A Technological Paradigm Shift towards a Mechatronic Ski Binding (DOI:10.1016/j.jsams.2020.06.009) in the quartile 1 Journal… [read more]

The professorship welcomes Mrs. Kati Nispel M.Sc. as a new research assistant. Ms. Nispel has already written her master thesis on the co-simulation between an MBS and a FEM software at the professorship. She will now be involved in the iBack and InTEGRATE projects and work on the development of a… [read more]

The new Annual Report 2019 of the Professorship of Sport Equipment and Sport Materials is now available. Enjoy discovering our last years' exciting projects. In case of having interest in more projekts since 2014 (i.e., 2014-2018) please follow this link. [read more]