An abstract from Ass-Prof Hans Kainz got accepted for an oral presentation at the ‘Modeling and Simulation’ session at the World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB). The WCB, held once every four years, is the most prestigious international meeting on biomechanics in the world. This year the WCB will be in Taipei (Taiwan) and, depending on […]
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On Monday Clara Egner passed her MSc thesis defense with distinction. The title of her thesis is “The Influence of Shoe Type and Performance Level on Joint Kinematics and Loading in Latin American Dancesport Specific Movements”. She studied at the Technical University of Vienna but conducted her research within our research group. Her thesis was supervised […]
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Last week Prof Ilse Jonkers gave a great keynote lecture for the students of our doctoral school (PhaNuSpo). Additionally to her scientific talk, the students had time to chat with Prof Jonkers during the ‘meet the expert’ session. Unfortunately, this event was online due to the COVID restrictions. Nevertheless, Prof Jonkers could show and convince […]
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FH-Prof Klaus Widhalm, PhD student Willi Koller and study assistant Johannes Eichwalder from our research group attended the GAMMA workshop about “Models, methods and functional tests in motion analysis” at the Balgrist University Campus last weekend in Zurich. The two days were packed with very interesting talks, discussions about clinical decision making and insights into […]
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This Thursday Ass-Prof Hans Kainz will talk about biomechanical modelling at the Science2Practice event organized by the Austrian Society for Sport Science (ÖSG). During his talk he will present some of his latest research papers. Amongst others, his presentation will include the estimation of dynamic muscle forces in children with cerebral palsy, multi-scale simulations to […]
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Last week Marion Bittner passed her MSc thesis defense with distinction. The title of her thesis is “A dual-task intervention combined with response-related feedback to reduce anxiety and boost cognition and functional fitness in elderly”. She conducted her research at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Foro Italico University in Rome (Italy) under supervision from Dr […]
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Last week Ass-Prof Hans Kainz received a research grant from the Vienna Doctoral School of Pharmaceutical, Nutritional and Sport Science. The grant will cover the cost of one PhD student for a duration of four years. The PhD position, which will focus on multi-scale modelling based on musculoskeletal simulations and finite element analysis, will be […]
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PhD student Willi Koller presented his latest research results at the Science2Practice event last week. The event was organized by the Austrian Society for Sport Science.
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Ass-Prof Hans Kainz and PhD student Willi Koller presented their latest research at the ESMAC conference last week. The three conference abstracts related to their work got published in the Journal of Gait and Posture. Below you can find the title and link to each abstract. Asymmetric gait pattern versus femoral morphology – What is […]
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The Annual Meeting of the European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children (https://www.esmac2021.org/) will take place on the 14 and 15th of October 2021. During this virtual meeting PhD student Willi Koller will present his latest research. Furthermore, Ass-Prof Hans Kainz will give two talks and chair one scientific session. Details of the […]
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