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November 2009
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Karl-Heinz
Umbach will be retiring from the Hohenstein Institute. He joined
the Hohenstein Institute in 1976, assuming the management of the
clothing phsiology area. He has held the function of acting manager
of the Bekleidungsphysiologisches Institut Hohenstein e.V. since
1993. As part of his work he refined and supplemented existing
clothing physiology-related measuring instruments and also developed
new devices and measurement methods as well as biophysical
calculation models. In addition, he also established the method for
a systematic construction of functional clothing in the scientific
world through lecturing assignments at the universities of
Stuttgart, Kassel and North Carolina State University in the US, as
well as numerous publications and presentations. Prof. Umbach will
continue to assist the Hohenstein Institute in an advisory capacity,
and in particular provide support to Dr. Andreas Schmidt, the
director of the newly established department "Function & Care",
along with the department's scientific manager Dr. Jan Beringer.
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