The professorship has initiated a new research project with the sporting goods manufacturer PUMA on the subject of PUMA - Designing the Future of Wearables - User Experience, Usability and Excitement - A Follow-up Analysis. The long-term goal of the project is the development of significant design… [read more]

The research project "Mechatronic Ski Binding" has launched with the presentation of the funding decision represented by Ministerial Director Dr. Sabine Jarothe. The three year project, involving companies, such as "Marker", "Völkl", "Schöffel", "Moticon", "InteractiveWear" and "2D Debus&Diebold" in… [read more]

The Professorship of Sports Equipment and Sports Materials has initiated a new ZIM project (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs) "SuPerHybridTurf". Content:SuPer (Sustainable Polymer) Hybrid Turf Development of a compostable hybrid sports turf with an ideal biomechanical load profile to minimize… [read more]

The Chair of Sports Equipment and Materials welcomes two new team members. These are Patrick Carqueville, M.Sc. and Valentin Wohlgut, M.Sc.. Both employees will be involved in the BFS (Mechatronic Ski Binding) project and partially within the ZIM (SuperHybridTurf) project. The professorship around… [read more]

Our research associate Stefanie Passler, M.Sc. was able to achieve two successful publications in the journals "Sensors" and "International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health". The articles are published in the MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) and have Open… [read more]

The journal "Reisswolf" of the TUM "Fachschaft Maschinenbau" has interviewed Prof. Senner in its recent issue 02/2019 and talked about his research at the TUM Campus Garching and research laboratory Garching-Hochbrück. By doing so, aspects such as "sports engineering" and "biomechanics" were… [read more]

ISSS 2019 - Participation in the 23rd International Congress on Snow Sports Trauma and Safety: From the 7th-12th of April Prof. Senner, Aljoscha Hermann and Lorenz Hüper participated in the 23rd Congress of the International Society for Skiing Safety. The Society discusses topics related to… [read more]

The Professorship of Sport Equipment and Sport Materials gathered for a joint doctoral workshop at the Science and Study Center Raitenhaslach (TUM) from the 20th until 21st of February, 2019 to spend two successful and exciting days regarding research and internal affairs. [read more]

As part of our PUMA project "Designing the Future of Wearables" the final expert workshop took place on mount Zugspitze (here: Schneefernerhaus; SFH) in inspiring high alpine regions (approx. 2656 metres) from 14th until 15th of February, 2019. 16 participants contributed to the workshops entire… [read more]

The Professorship for Sports Equipment and Materials was represented at the "Highlights der Physics" in Dortmund from 17.-22.09.2018. In the exhibition in the middle of the city center, citizens can find out about topics related to physics. This year's main topic was sports / people / medicine. The… [read more]