Dr. Juliana Exel was invited to participate as a speaker in the Lecture Series organised by Prof. Matthias Kempe at the University of Groningen. In the presentation “Unlocking the betas of performance in climbing with human movement sciences”, she talked about the role of biomechanics in supporting the assessment, diagnostics, and prescription of one of the […]
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Dr. Exel took center stage in the International Week at the Faculty of Sports Studies, MUNI, on November 22nd. The International panel featured experts from Norway, Finland, Spain, Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Cyprus. Dr. Exel’s presentation, titled “The Use of Technology in Sport: From the Laboratory to the Field,” not only showcased […]
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From October 12-15, the 33rd IADMS (International Association for Dance Medicine and Science) conference was held in Columbus, OH, USA. This multidisciplinary event focuses on health for dance and dance for health. The program included presentations and practical sessions on a wide variety of topics including training, medicine, biomechanics, nutrition, didactics and inclusion. In the […]
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Last week the scientific symposium ‘Human reproduction and evolution: Perspectives from developmental biology, obstetrics, orthopedics and biomechanics’ took place at the Department of Evolutionary Biology of the University of Vienna. International experts from different fields joint the symposium, gave talks and discussed multi-disciplinary aspects of the so-called ‘obstetrical dilemma’ Dr Kainz was invited to give […]
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Yesterday Ass-Prof Hans Kainz gave a talk about in-silico simulations at the Griffith Centre for Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering at Griffith University (Australia). The talk was followed by a fruitful discussion with PIs and students. After lunch, Dr. Kainz had the opportunity to see the BioSpine research facilities, which recently received mutli-million dollar funding to […]
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Currently Ass-Prof Hans Kainz is on a research stay in Australia. Yesterday Dr Kainz visited the Training Centre for Joint Biomechanics at the University of Technology in Brisbane (Australia). During his visit, Hans gave a talk entitled ‘Musculoskeletal and multi-scale simulations to estimate internal loads and bone growth’. His talk led to a fruitful discussion […]
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The 28th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics was held in Maastricht, The Netherlands from the 9th until the 12th of July. The theme of the conference was ‘Combining data- and knowledge-driven modeling: from measurements, through insights to decisions’, which highlighted the importance of the integration of mechanistic experimental and computational biomechanics with upcoming data-driven modeling. Ass-Prof Hans […]
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Last week Ass-Prof Dr Hans Kainz was in Dublin at the ESMAC conference. The purpose of ESMAC (the European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children) is to stimulate and advance scientific knowledge, professional interaction and the exchange of ideas among Society members relating to movement analysis in adults and children in clinical and […]
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Last week, the 10th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD) took place at the TU Vienna. It provides a forum for professionals, researchers, and experts in the field of theoretic and applied aspects of mathematical modelling for systems of dynamic nature. PhD student Willi Koller held a talk about musculoskeletal modelling and the need […]
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The European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) organizes an annual scientific conference. The last two years this event was organized as an online meeting due to the COVID-19 restriction. This year it was finally possible to hold the congress on site again. Researchers were invited to the beautiful city of Porto in Portugal, situated on the […]
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