At the University of Klagenfurt
- FruitScope: A DroneScope for smart agriculture
Co-applicant with B. Rinner, C. Timmerer, S. Weiss. Karl Popper Science Kolleg and doctoral school funded by the University of Klagenfurt, 2025 – 2028 - Self-fulfilling prophecies in the digital age
Co-applicant with F. Wall. Project in the Ada Lovelace program funded by the University of Klagenfurt, 2024 – 2027 - Drones in cellular networks
Host and mentor. Research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2022 – 2026 - Condition and energy monitoring with ultra-reliable sensor networks (ConSens)
Co-applicant. Research project funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), 2011 – 2023 - Self-organizing synchronization with stochastic coupling
Principal investigator. Research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2018 – 2023 - Self-powered UWB-based industrial sensor networks (UWB4Industry)
Co-applicant. Funding from FFG/KWF, 2018 – 2019 - Drone communications over cellular networks (DroneZ)
Principal investigator. Collaboration with T-Mobile/Magenta and Deutsche Telekom, 2017 – 2021 - Networked autonomous aerial vehicles (NAV)
Co-applicant with B. Rinner, H. Hellwagner, S. Weiss. Karl Popper Science Kolleg and doctoral school funded by the University of Klagenfurt, 2017 – 2021 - Research and training program in unmanned aerial vehicles, University of Toronto
Collaborator. Funding from Research Council of Canada, 2016 – - Adaptive access management for cabin-based transport systems (AMACAT)
Co-applicant. Collaboration with SKIDATA. Funding from KWF/BABEG, 2015 – 2018 - Reliable wireless sensor networks for aircraft applications (REWISE)
Principal investigator. Collaboration with Airbus. Funding from KWF/BABEG, 2015 – 2017 - Self-organizing intelligent network of UAVs (SINUS)
Co-applicant. Funding from EU/KWF/BABEG, 2013 – 2015 - Dynamics of interference in wireless networks (INDY)
Principal investigator. Research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2012 – 2017 - Pioneering research in mobile networked systems
Principal investigator. Funding from KWF and EU, 2012 – 2015 - Heterogeneity in self-organizing network synchronization (HiSONS)
Principal investigator. Research project funded by EU/KWF/BABEG, 2012 – 2015 - Decision-making systems with information errors: An interdisciplinary approach (SOSIE)
Co-applicant with F. Wall. Research project funded by EU/KWF/BABEG, 2012 – 2015 - Robust self-organizing slot synchronization in networked embedded systems (ROSSY)
Principal applicant. Dissertation grant by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), 2010 – 2013 - PhD School in Interactive and Cognitive Environments (ICE)
Co-applicant with B. Rinner (coordinator), M. Huemer, M. Hitz. Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate school funded by the European Commission, 2010 – 2017 - Collaborative Microdrones (cDrones)
Co-applicant. Research project funded by EU/KWF/BABEG, 2009 – 2012 - Self-organizing slot synchronization (Triple-S)
Principal investigator. Research project funded by EU/KWF/BABEG, 2009 – 2010 - Cooperative relaying in wireless networks (RELAY)
Principal investigator. Research project funded by EU/KWF/BABEG, 2008 – 2013 - Middleware for network eccentric and mobile applications (MiNEMA).
Steering board member, 01/06 – 03/09. Research networking program funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) - Network coding in dynamic networks
Co-applicant. Doctoral grant from the Portuguese Science & Technology Fund (FCT), 2006–2012 - Cooperative spatial diversity in ad hoc networks
Principal Investigator. Research contract from Orange Labs, 2006 – 2009
- Modeling spatial node distributions
Principal Investigator. Research grant from Soongsil University, 2007 – 2008
At Lakeside Labs
Between 2015 and 2025, more than 40 funded research projects were acquired and carried out at Lakeside Labs under my scientific directorship (see project list). In several of these projects, I made scientific and technical contributions to the proposal preparation, project execution, and resulting publications, including several large-scale and highly competitive projects. Examples include:
- 6G for connected sky (6G-SKY)
Contributor. Project funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) in the framework of the European CELTIC-NEXT cluster, 2022 – 2025 - 5G Playground Carinthia: Communication in swarms
Co-initiator and contributor. Project funded by BABEG. 2019 – 2023 - Dependable, secure, and time-aware sensor networks (DeSSnet)
Co-applicant. K project funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), 2017 – 2021
At DOCOMO Euro-Labs
- Ad hoc networking with adaptive antennas (ADMIN)
Senior researcher at DOCOMO Euro-Labs, 2004 – 2005, with TU Munich - WearIT@Work: Empowering the mobile worker by wearable computing
Senior researcher at DOCOMO Euro-Labs, European project - Distributed medium access control with QoS support in multihop networks
Senior researcher at DOCOMO Euro-Labs, 2003 – 2005, with TU Berlin - IP-based protocols for multihop radio access networks (MRAN)
Senior researcher at DOCOMO Euro-Labs, 2003 – 2004
At Technische Universität München
- System architecture, mobility, and modeling of wireless ad hoc networks
Researcher at TU Munich, funded by DFG, 2000 – 2003 - IP-based communication protocols in a car environment (IPcar)
Researcher at TU Munich, with and funded by BMW, 1999
- Turbo decoding with tail-biting trellises
Student at University of Notre Dame and TU Munich, supported by DAAD, 1998