Modern prosthetics: the development of innovative materials and AI

 

Seminar fee

Participation in the seminars is free of charge for scientists, university staff, and students throughout Germany. Please register using your university email address.

The project is funded by the GO-Bio initial program of the BMFTR.

Please note that your registration is binding. You can cancel your registration up to one week before the course begins without giving a reason.

Target audience

This project is suitable for master's students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and all academic staff in the life and natural sciences, medicine, and related fields who want to further develop their applicable ideas or inventions, ideally to the point of commercialization.

Program

The program and invitation to the seminar can be found here as a PDF file.

Speakers

Dr Kaal, Deputy Head of the “System Dynamics” Department, has been conducting research for over 18 years at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF in Darmstadt. As part of the “ProFi” project, a flexible, multistable finger prosthesis made from a single intelligent material component was developed in collaboration between Fraunhofer LBF, IWM, ITWM and IA.

Dr Baumann has been working as a researcher in the Health and Technologisation of Life division at KIT’s ITAS since 2017. Her work focuses on the ethical and social aspects of biotechnology and medical technology, and she has extensive experience gained from a wide range of projects at the interface between humans and technology.

Location

The seminar will take place online via the BigBlueButton (BBB) web conferencing system. You can open BBB via a link in your web browser. All you need to do is click on the link to join the seminar. We will send you the link by email in good time. Access will be open from 12:50 p.m.