Space-Exploration Lecture: “Exploring Venus: Hot Beauty or Earth’ Evil Twin?”

Roland Brockers is Professor of Modular Robotic Systems in the Control of Networked Systems group and a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology in California. On Wednesday, June 10, 2026, he will once again give a lecture for the interested public as part of his teaching stay at the university, this time on the topic “Exploring Venus: Hot Beauty or Earth’s Evil Twin?” (5:00 PM, Lecture Hall 1).

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Best Performer Awards, Roland Mittermeir Award, and Doctoral Thesis Award of the Faculty of Technical Sciences 2024/25

On 5 November, the Best Performer Awards 2024/25, the Roland Mittermeir Prize 2024 and, for the first time, the Dissertation Prize 2024/25 were presented at the University meets Industry: Talents for Carinthia event.

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Inspecting Critical Infrastructure such as Power Masts or Railway Tracks with Drones: University of Klagenfurt project receives funding from the Christian Doppler Research Association

Through its Transfer.Science to Spin-off funding scheme, the Christian Doppler Research Association (CDG) is supporting ten research activities as they take their final steps from fundamental research towards application, with a total of EUR 6.8 million in funding. Among the funded initiatives is AIONIC, a project that aims to enable the fully autonomous inspection of critical infrastructure using drones or robotic systems. The AIONIC project team — Thomas Jantos, Martin Scheiber, and Eren Allak — is led by Professor Stephan Weiss, head of the Control of Networked Systems research group. The team is building on extensive preliminary work from prior research projects.

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Flying to victory with the best drones

Gilbert Tanner is part of the SAPIENCE team at the University of Klagenfurt, a group consisting of six young students and researchers who are working on new approaches to the use of drones in search and rescue operations. However, the student, who is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, is not only launching drones into the air, but also striving for lofty goals himself: he will soon complete his studies in the shortest possible time and will then move on to pursue a Master’s degree programme at ETH Zurich.

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