RESEARCH
Grants & Winners
ERC Grant (ongoing)
Sound and Early Assessment of Leakage for Embedded Software (SEAL)
Project lead: Elisabeth Oswald (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, Digital Age Research Center D!ARC)
Project term: 1 June 2019 to 31 August 2023
Funding framework: HORIZON 2020 (ERC)
ERC Grant (transferred or expired)
Understanding the Role of Material Stock Patterns for the Transformation to a Sustainable Society (MAT_STOCKS)
Project lead: Helmut Haberl (Department of Social Ecology, at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna) since 1 March 2018)
Project term: 1 March 2018 to 28 February 2023
Funding framework: HORIZON 2020 (ERC Advanced Grant)
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An integrated socioecological approach to land-use intensity: Analyzing and mapping biophysical stocks/flows and their socioeconomic drivers (LUISE)
Project lead: Karlheinz Erb (Department of Social Ecology, at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna) since 1 March 2018)
Project term: 1 October 2010 to 31 March 2017
Funding framework: HORIZON 2020 (ERC Starting Grant)
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Karlheinz Erb erhält ERC Starting Grant 2010: Die zwei Gesichter der Intensivierung der Landnutzung (in German only)

Hidden Emissions of Forest Transitions: GHG effects of socio-metabolic processes reducing pressures on forests (HEFT)
Project lead: Simone Gingrich (Department of Social Ecology, at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna) since 1 March 2018)
Project term: 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2023
Funding framework: HORIZON 2020 (ERC Starting Grant)
Horizon 2020
Enabling the Big Data Pipeline Lifecycle on the Computing Continuum (DataCloud)
Project lead: Radu Prodan (Department of Information Technology)
Project term: 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2023
Funding framework: EU HORIZON 2020
Autonomous Robotic Inspection and Maintenance on Ship Hulls and Storage Tanks
Project lead: Stephan Weiss (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Project term: 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2023
Funding framework: EU HORIZON 2020
Prevention of child mental health problems in Eastern Europe – Adapt, Optimize, Test, and Extend Parenting for Lifelong Health (RISE)
Project lead: Heather Foran (Department of Psychology)
Project term: 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2021
Funding framework: EU HORIZON 2020
Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Optimisation Applications (MINOA)
Project lead: Angelika Wiegele (Department of Mathematics)
Project term: 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2021
Funding framework: EU HORIZON 2020, MSCA
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Optimierung: Exzellenzprogramm für Mathematik in Klagenfurt (in German only)

Integrated Development 4.0 (iDev40_STAT)
Project lead: Jürgen Pilz (Department of Statistics)
Project term: 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2021
Funding framework: EU HORIZON 2020, FFG
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Die Nadel im Heuhaufen (in German only)

exAScale ProgramIng models for extreme Data procEssing (ASPIDE)
Project lead: Radu Prodan (Department of Information Technology)
Project term: 15 June 2018 to 14 December 2020
Funding framework: EU HORIZON 2020
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smART socIal media eCOsystems in a blockchaiN Federated environment (ARTICONF)
Project lead: Radu Prodan (Department of Information Technology)
Project term: 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021
Funding framework: EU HORIZON 2020
Robust and Efficient Approaches to Evaluate Side Channel Resilience (REASSURE)
Project lead: Elisabeth Oswald (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC))
Project term: 5 April 2019 to 31 December 2020
Funding framework: European Commission
Christian Doppler Research Association
CD Pilot Laboratory for Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services
Project lead: Christian Timmerer (Department of Information Technology)
Project term: 1 May 2019 to 30 April 2021
Funding framework: Christian Doppler Research Association
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
From Basic to Applied Research: The role of working memory in hand baggage search – DOC scholarship
Scholarship recipient: Anna Conci (Department of Psychology)
Supervisor: Bartosz Gula (Department of Psychology)
Project term: 1 March 2019 to 31 August 2021
Funding framework: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and Interpretation – DOC scholarship
Scholarship recipient: Carina Rasse (Department of English)
Supervisor: Alexander Onysko (Department of English)
Project term: 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2021
Funding framework: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
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Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB)
Ausgestaltung, Umsetzung und Effekte des Gender Budgeting im österreichischen Haushaltswesen
Project lead: Birgit Moser-Plautz (Department of Public, Nonprofit and Health Management)
Funding framework: Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank
Perspectives on motives and barriers for or against taking up higher education
Project lead: Hans Karl Peterlini (Department of Educational Science)
Project term: 1 June 2017 to 31 May 2020
Funding framework: Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank
A systematic analysis and relaxation of assumptions incorporated in the standard hidden-action model OeNB (SARAH OeNB)
Project lead: Stephan Leitner (Department of Management Control and Strategic Management)
Project term: 1 March 2019 to 31 March 2022
Funding framework: Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank
Systematic errors in organisational decision-making OeNB
Project lead: Paul Schweinzer (Department of Economics)
Project term: 1 November 2018 to 31 December 2020
Funding framework: Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Gradient flow approximation for stabilization and motion planning in dynamic environments
Project lead: Viktoriia Grushkovska (Department of Mathematics)
Project term: 2 December 2019 to 30 September 2020
Funding framework: German Research Foundation
FWF Austrian Science Fund
High-dimensional statistical learning: New methods to advance economic and sustainability policies
Project lead: Gregor Kastner (Department of Statistics)
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Questioning sequences in coaching
Project lead: Eva-Maria Graf (Department of English)
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Computer-aided verification of existing P/NP proofs
Project lead: Stefan Rass (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity)
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Innovations in journalism in democratic societies
Project lead: Matthias Karmasin (Department of media and communications / Institute for comparative media and communication studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Learn to Fly Live
Project lead: Jan Steinbrener (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Emergence in the early modern philosophy of nature
Project lead: Andreas Blank (Department of Philosophy)
Project term: 1 August 2020 to 31 July 2024
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Modeling–Analysis–Optimization of discrete, continuous, and stochastic systems
Project lead: Michaela Szölgyenyi (Department of Statistic)
Project term: 1 October 2020 to 30 September 2024
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Spinoza on the concept of the human life form
Project lead: Ursula Renz (Department of Philosophy)
Project term: 1 October 2016 to 30 September 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Was menschliches Leben auszeichnet (in German only)

The myth in the structure of human thinking and hermeneutics of the myth
Project lead: Mayya Soboleva (Department of Philosophy)
Project term: 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Obstacles to wisdom in the professional context
Project lead: Judith Glück (Department of Psychology)
Project term: 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2020
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Violence in German and Soviet occupied Poland 1939-1941
Project lead: Dieter Pohl (Department of History)
Project term: 1 June 2019 to 31 May 2023
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento
Project lead: Susanne Friede (Department of Romance Studies)
Project term: 1 October 2018 to 31 September 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Die andere Renaissance: internationales Forschungsprojekt „Antiklassizismen im Cinquecento“ gestartet (in German only)

Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures
Project lead: Alexa Weik von Mossner (Department of English)
Project term: 1. Oktober 2018 bis 30. September 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Ukrainian-Russian and Russian-Ukrainian Code Mixing
Project lead: Tilmann Reuther (Department of Slavonic Studies)
Project term: 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2022
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Was machen soziale und politische Geschichte mit Sprache? Ukrainisch-russische und russisch-ukrainische Sprachvarietäten (in German only)

German-Jewish Literature: Research Approaches in Paradigms
Project lead: Heinz Primus Kucher (Department of German)
Project term: 1 November 2019 to 31 October 2022
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
MUSIL ONLINE – interdiscursive commentary
Project lead: Anke Bosse (Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research)
Project term: 1 March 2018 to 30 April 2022
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Kofler from an intermedial perspective. The complete works (annotated) of Werner Kofler
Project lead: Wolfgang Straub (Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research)
Project term: 1 November 2018 to 31 October 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Werner Kofler intermedial: Kommentierte Werkausgabe zum Werk in Radio, Film und Theater entsteht (in German only)

The contribution of non-manual elements to the syntax of the Austrian sign language (SignNonmanuals)
Project lead: Marlene Hilzensauer (Faculty Centre for Sign Language and Deaf Communication)
Project term: 10 April 2017 to 9 April 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Performing Reality
Project lead: Bernd Lielpold-Mosser (Department of Cultural Analysis)
Project term: 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2020
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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10. Oktober in Kärnten: FWF-Projekt stellt den Mythos auf den Prüfstand (in German only)

A Theory of Entrepreneurship
Project lead: Paul Schweinzer (Department of Economics)
Project term: 1 November 2018 to 31 October 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Optimal control of nonlinear stochastic models
Project lead: Viktoria Blüschke-Nikolaeva (Department of Economics)
Project term: 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Bessere Lösungen für wirtschaftspolitische Fragen berechnen (in German only)

Mapping the Unspeakable
Project lead: Katrin Ackerl (Department of Organization, Human Resources, and Service Management )
Project term: 1 June 2019 to 31 May 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Analytic Combinatorics: Digits, Automata and Trees
Project lead: Clemens Heuberger (Department of Mathematics)
Project term: 1 June 2016 to 31 May 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Die Mathematik hinter den Verschlüsselungscodes (in German only)

High-Performance Solvers for Binary Quadratic Problems
Project lead: Angelika Wiegele (Department of Mathematics)
Project term: 1 July 2017 to 31 August 2020
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Auf der Suche nach der optimalen Lösung: Neues Grundlagenforschungsprojekt (in German only)

Solving inverse problems without using forward operators
Project lead: Barbara Kaltenbacher (Department of Mathematics)
Project term: 1 October 2017 to 29 November 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Numerical Dynamics of Integro Difference Equations
Project lead: Christian Pötzsche (Department of Mathematics)
Project term: 1 March 2018 to 28 February 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Solide mathematische Grundlage für Simulationen (in German only)

Self-Organizing Synchronization with Stochastic Coupling
Project lead: Christian Bettstetter (Department of Networked and Embedded Systems)
Project term: 1 August 2018 to 31 July 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Surgical Quality Assessment in Gynecological Surgery
Project lead: Klaus Schöffmann (Department of Information Technology)
Project term: 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2023
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Qualität von gynäkologischen Operationen durch Videoanalyse verbessern (in German only)

Relevance Detection in Ophthalmic Surgery Videos
Project lead: Klaus Schöffmann (Department of Information Technology)
Project term: 1 October 2018 to 30 September 2021
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Interactive Spreadsheet Debugging
Project lead: Dietmar Jannach (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity)
Project term: 15 September 2019 to 14 March 2023
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Excel: Wer Fehler suchet, der findet (in German only)

Producing Novelty and Securing Credibility: LHC Experiments in STS-Perspective
Project lead: Martina Merz (Department of Science Communication and Higher Education Research)
Project term: 1 September 2016 to 30 September 2020
Funding framework: FWF Austrian Science Fund
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Forschung zu CERN: Wie entsteht dort neues Wissen? (in German only)

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Change Analyses in Microservice-Based Systems
Project lead: Martin Pinzger (Department of Informatics Systems)
Funding framework: FFG
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Development of an AI based ISMS and risk management system
Project lead: Stefan Rass (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity)
Funding framework: FFG
Multi-Sensorfusion for Navigation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Beyond GNSS-Denied Environments
Project lead: Stephan Weiss (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Funding framework: FFG
Multisensor- und KI-basierte Selbstpositionierung von Multicoptern zur autonomen Navigation für Objektinspektion
Project lead: Stephan Weiss (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Funding framework: FFG
Selbstorganisierende UAS Schwärme zur Einsatzunterstützung in Katastrophenfällen und bei der Vermisstensuche
Project lead: Stephan Weiss (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Funding framework: FFG
Künstliche Intelligenz für Multi-Sensorlösung zur Autonomen Sicherung Kritischer Infrastruktur
Project lead: Stephan Weiss (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Funding framework: FFG
Airborne data collection on resilient system architectures
Project lead: Hubert Zangl (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Project term: 1 May 2020 to 30 April 2023
Funding framework: FFG (EU, ECSEL)
Accurate Interventional Medical Robotics through AI and Multi-Sensor Fusion
Project lead: Jan Steinbrener (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Project term: 1 June 2020 to 31 May 2023
Funding framework: FFG (Bridge)
State-estimation and Control for Automated Model Parameter Identification with application to cable robots
Project lead: Stephan Weiss (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Project term: 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2023
Funding framework: FFG (Bridge)
Intelligent agent-based locomotive circulation simulation and optimization in Austrian freight traffic
Project lead: Philipp Hungerländer (Department of Mathematics)
Project term: 1 September 2018 to 31 August 2020
Funding framework: FFG
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MOdular, Distributed and Uncertainty aware sensor-fusion for Long-term
Project lead: Stephan Weiss (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Project term: 1 October 2016 to 30 September 2020
Funding framework: FFG (BRIDGE)
Automated Log Ordering through robotic Grasper
Project leads: Stephan Weiss and Hubert Zangl (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Project term: 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2021
Funding framework: FFG (Production in the Future)
Electronic data sheets for the digitalization of system development
Project lead: Hubert Zangl (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Project term: 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2021
Funding framework: FFG (Silicon Alps)
Light Weight Signal Processing for Smart Sensors and Smart Actuators
Project lead: Hubert Zangl (Department of Smart Systems Technologies)
Project term: 1 May 2019 to 30 April 2022
Funding framework: FFG (Comet K1 Programme)
Swarm Intelligence Layer to Control Autonomous Agents
Project lead: Wilfried Elmenreich (Department of Networked and Embedded Systems)
Project term: 1 October 2018 to 30 September 2021
Funding framework: FFG (ICT of the future)
Enhanced well-being through innovative digitally supported personal health management (AYUDO)
Project lead: Claudia Steinberger (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity)
Project term: 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2022
Funding framework: FFG (Benefit)
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Alle Gesundheitsdaten im Blick mit neuen technischen Tools (in German only)

Simulation and analysis of critical network infrastructures in cities
Project lead: Stefan Rass (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity)
Project term: 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2021
Funding framework: FFG (KIRAS)
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