Christian Bettstetter is professor and head of the Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and founding scientific director of Lakeside Labs, a research and innovation company. He holds a Dr.-Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical and information engineering from Technische Universität München, Germany. His research contributions are in wireless and self-organizing systems with applications in telecommunications and robotics.

Current Research Activities
– Self-organizing synchronization and swarming (FWF grant and free research)
– Drone communications and coordination (FWF grant, doctoral school, industry cooperations)
– Interference in wireless networks (FWF grant and free research)
– Industrial sensor networks (Industry cooperations)

Selected Recent Publications
– Interference functionals in Poisson networks. IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2016
– Drone networks: Communications, coordination, and sensing. Ad Hoc Netw., 2018
– Interference management for cellular-connected UAVs. IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., 2019
– Sandsbots: Robots that sync and swarm. IEEE Access, 2020