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The professorship welcomes Melanie Baldinger as research assistant. She has written her master thesis on the conception and development of a system to measure the pressure distribution in a skiboot at the professorship. She will be now working on the project MotiTrain and will be working on an…

A Master thesis from Emil Wörgötter

The professorship welcomes Anne Katharina Keßler as intern. She will be working on different projects of the professorship. We wish Mrs. Keßler a successful start.

Some students from the interdisciplinary project course worked in cooperation with the bavarian mountain rescue service on the "acquisition of data during rescue in mountain conditions". During six months they developed and tested an app to achieve this goal. You can find a report from the bavarian…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…