October 20, 2025

Manuel Lankes receives teampool award for his bachelor's thesis

Manuel Lankes, born in 2003, graduated from Rottmayr Gymnasium Laufen in Germany. He is currently working as a project assistant at the University of Salzburg while pursuing a master’s degree in computer science.

In his research, he is continuing to develop the topic from his bachelor’s thesis on accelerating Jaro-Winkler similarity joins and plans to publish the results at a conference in the near future. He has now received the prestigious teampool award for his bachelor’s thesis.

October 16, 2025

Anna Bolotina receives teampool award for her master's thesis

Anna Bolotina received her bachelor’s degree from Southern Federal University in Russia in 2018 and her master’s degree from the University of Salzburg in 2024. She is currently a doctoral student in formal methods at the University of Salzburg under the supervision of Prof. Christoph Kirsch. From 2019 to 2022, she was a research assistant at the Czech Technical University in Prague and from 2022 to 2024 at the University of Salzburg. Her research focuses on programming languages and functional programming. She has now received the prestigious teampool award for her master’s thesis.

Her thesis, “Symbolic Benchmarking of RISC-V Code,” deals with symbolic benchmarking. What exactly does that mean, and why is it relevant?

October 16, 2025

Cybersecurity research from Salzburg in the focus of the daily newspaper Der Standard

Prof. Dr. Dimitris Simos, holder of the bridge professorship for cybersecurity at the University of Salzburg and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, was profiled in a detailed interview in the current print edition of Der Standard (October 15, 2025). In the article, Prof. Simos discusses his research on securing critical digital infrastructures, the role of combinatorial testing methods, and the societal challenges in the context of blackout risks and networked systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the connection between abstract mathematics and concrete security-relevant applications. Prof. Simos’ professorship is part of the State of Salzburg’s Exdigit initiative and aims to more closely integrate research, teaching, and innovation in the field of cybersecurity.

October 16, 2025

Yvonne Holzer: Computer science student receives teampool scholarship

The University of Salzburg congratulates Yvonne Holzer, born in 2006, on receiving the teampool scholarship! Holzer was already interested in machine learning systems and robotics during her school days at HTBLuVa in Salzburg.

“My enthusiasm for technology and computer science was instilled in me from birth,” says Holzer. “Thanks to my mom, dad, and uncle - they all work in technical fields - I developed a talent for mathematics, technical understanding, and quick comprehension at an early age. These foundations continue to shape me today.”

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.