October 9, 2025

Rethinking Digital Security: Interdisciplinary Kick-off by Prof. Dimitrios Simos

Last Thursday, 2 October 2025, Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Simos’ inaugural lecture in the Europasaal at Edmundsburg was attended with great interest. Numerous guests accepted the invitation from the DAS Faculty to give a fitting welcome to the holder of the dual professorship for cyber security at the University of Salzburg and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.

In his lecture, Prof. Simos covered a wide range of topics, from combinatorial mathematics to current security-critical application areas – from automotive software and cryptographic hardware to the protection of critical infrastructure. Of particular note is his interdisciplinary approach to transferring methods from cybersecurity to disaster management, thus paving the way for prevention and resilience research.

September 23, 2025

The State of Salzburg is funding four innovative AI projects with a total of €2.5 million

One of these is the project RAPID (Reliable AI for Public Law and Intelligent Decision-making), a cross-faculty collaboration between legal and digital sciences and, not least, another outcome of the EXDIGIT initiative funded by the State of Salzburg.

As part of the Science and Innovation Strategy (WISS) 2030, the State of Salzburg launched the call “AI Research Salzburg 2025,” setting targeted priorities in the field of digital transformation. The call was aimed at researchers from Salzburg universities and non-university research institutions who wish to carry out interdisciplinary projects at the interface between basic and applied research.

July 29, 2025

Internationally Renowned Computer Scientist and Mathematician Appointed to Cybersecurity Professorship

In July 2025, internationally renowned computer scientist and mathematician Dimitris Simos will assume the professorship for Cybersecurity at the University of Salzburg and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (FH Salzburg). This cross-institutional endowed professorship, initiated within the framework of the EXDIGIT project and anchored at both academic institutions, will offer a forward-looking focus in research and teaching.

Dimitris Simos has previously held prestigious research positions, including visiting scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the USA, senior researcher at the COMET Center SBA Research in Vienna, and Austria’s Science and Technology Representative at the United Nations for disaster and risk management. With over 150 publications, he is one of the leading voices in the field of secure systems.

July 29, 2025

Three first-year students of the Bachelor’s degree program in Computer Science will each receive a scholarship

Applications are already open – the application deadline is August 31, 2025. Three first-year students of the Bachelor’s degree program in Computer Science will each receive a scholarship of EUR 1,000 per month for the upcoming academic year from the company teampool personal service gmbh. The scholarship is awarded for up to three years, depending on academic performance. teampool, headquartered in Seekirchen, is one of Austria’s largest personnel service providers.

July 14, 2025

Digital Wisdom at the Push of a Button

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 | 5:00 PM | Bibliotheksaula | Hofstallgasse 2–4 | Salzburg

Initiated by Univ.-Prof. Wolfgang Pree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Salzburg, the Bruder David AI Bot was developed in collaboration with the world-renowned Benedictine monk and spiritual teacher David Steindl-Rast.

Brother David is well known for his interfaith dialogues and international networks of gratitude. With this new AI-based dialogue app, his knowledge and wisdom become accessible in a new way. The event offers insights into the intersection of spirituality and technology, inviting participants to engage with timeless wisdom in a contemporary form.

March 25, 2025

Public Lecture Series

How does smart toys’ surveillance affect our children? Does the digital euro turn us into transparent citizens? Can our privacy still be saved? Digital data traces concern us all. The public lecture series “Privacy in the Digital World” at the University of Salzburg presents current research on privacy and data protection in the digital realm.

What do professors of philosophy, computer science, constitutional and administrative law, and the data protection officer of the University of Salzburg have in common? They are the organizers of this public lecture series, which addresses the topic of privacy from an interdisciplinary and cross-faculty perspective. The question of individual privacy in our increasingly digital everyday lives—whether in studies, work, or private life—affects us all. There are two extreme viewpoints: some see privacy as being threatened by new technologies, while others view bureaucratic barriers as obstacles to innovation.