News

In this section are listed news about important publications, research projects and events.

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Research

SKLM publishes position paper: Shaping the future of food and nutrition research in Germany

In recent years, the global social challenges in the area of food and nutrition have become increasingly visible: securing the world's food supply and combating hunger, the prevention and treatment of diet-related diseases such as obesity and the …
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IfADo

Awarded: Innovation Prize 2024

The German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine has awarded the 2024 Innovation Prize to the authors of the specialist article "Occupational bladder carcinoma - The BK 1301 matrix as an algorithm and decision aid for a correlation assessment" …
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Event

Flashes of inspiration with Marie Beaupain - IfADo researcher at the DGN Science Slam

Neurology PhD student Marie Beaupain wowed the audience at the German Neurological Society's "Geistesblitze" science slam at the Volksbühne Berlin. In her presentation "Dopamine and electric shocks - it's getting stimulating for the brain", she spoke about …
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Research

Data standard for nanosafety research data published on ‘FAIRsharing.org’

Partners of the LRA Advanced Materials Safety, of which IfADo is a member, have published the results of one of their collaborations, a data guideline for description of research data called Minimum Information Table for the Safety of Engineered Nanomaterials …
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Ergonomics

Successfully defended: New PhD at IfADo

Melinda Sabo successfully defended her dissertation at Ruhr-Universität Bochum on January 25. The cognitive scientist has been working as a research assistant at IfADo in the Department of Ergonomics since 2020.
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Ergonomics

SOPRANO Project Launch

In late 2023, the SOPRANO project was launched, a research project focusing on innovations in the field of human-robot collaboration. Along with other European companies and research institutions, IfADo is also involved. The project is part of the EU's Horizon …
"Demo against the right - colorful instead of brown" in Dortmund

IfADo

For Democracy and Human Dignity - Declaration of the Leibniz Association

Civil society has shown that our democracy is vibrant and resilient. The Leibniz Association - including IfADo - stands with the demonstrators and strongly supports the protest.
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Ergonomics

FELICE Update: Training workers for cobot interaction

Creating a successful collaboration between human and cobot does not only require designing the robot itself. Humans also need to understand the peculiarities of having a cobot as a team member. Therefore, as part of the FELICE project, researchers at IfADo …