Newspapers and Magazines

• “We don’t need to hide here in Carinthia”, Kleine Zeitung, July 2026
• Self-healing systems are being developed in Klagenfurt—backed by millions in funding, Kleine Zeitung, June 2026
• 97.5 million Euros for one new and three existing COMET centers, Der Brutkasten, June 2026
• LoconIQ: Carinthian startup develops real-time solution for localization, Der Brutkasten, March 2025
• 1000 times more accurate than GPS, Kleine Zeitung, Feb. 2025
• Carinthian of the day: Melisa Midžan: She lets robots swarm, Kleine Zeitung, January 2024
• Measuring with autarkic networks, Der Standard, November 2023
• Students voted: These lecturers do the best teaching, Kleine Zeitung, November 2022
• 5G award for robot swarms that organize themselves via 5G, Futurezone, November 2022
• “We are ahead of time”, Feature about Samira Hayat, Kärntner Monat, November 2022
• Minister visited university drone hall and FH, Kleine Zeitung, August 2022
• New study program in robotics in Klagenfurt, Kleine Zeitung, February 2022
• In the wake of Infineon: Carinthia tackles the chip industry, Handelsblatt, October 2021
• ‘Rocket launch’ of a novel key technology, Die Presse, June 2021
• Carinthian of the day: Daniel Neuhold, Kleine Zeitung, May 2021
• Self-organization along the lines of nature, Der Standard, January 2021
• How the 5G revolution will change engineering forever, Professional Engineering, July 2020
• Early research shows 5G drones still need some work, DroneDJ, April 2020
• Hall for drone research at University of Klagenfurt, Der Standard, December 2019
• Europe’s largest drone hall opened, ORF, Dezember 2019
• Drones go nuts for mobile networks, Kleine Zeitung, October 2019
• Using existing cellular networks for drones, Kleine Zeitung, September 2019
• How cellular networks must be equipped for drones, iBusiness, September 2019
• The master of drones, Kärntner Business Monat, Portrait of Samira Hayat, August 2019
• Into the future with robots, Kleine Zeitung, December 2018
• A plea for artistic freedom, ORF, December 2018
• An interview with drone-passionate engineer Samira Hayat, The Shift, December 2018
• Scientific curiosity (Forscherdrang), Forbes, Feature about Samira Hayat, October (no. 9) 2018
• Being cordless above the clouds, Die Presse, September 2018
• Falling Walls: These startups from Austria are going to the final in Berlin, Trending Topics, August 2018
• Free aircraft from cable spaghetti, Kleine Zeitung, June 2018
• When scientists hit the keys, Die Presse, June 2018
• Drones as delivery services, eMove, issue 04, pages 90–91, 2017
• 5G enables drone swarming, Kleine Zeitung, September 2017
• Austria’s first 5G test region to be established in Carinthia, Futurezone, September 2017
• 5G test region for Austria, Der Standard, September 2017
• 5G Playground Carinthia, Kleine Zeitung, September 2017
• Drones: From killing machines to healing machines, Futurezone, June 2017
• Wirelessly networked passengers, Der Standard, April 2017
• This is where Carinthia is doing research! (pdf), M.U.T. Magazine, March 2017
• Never wait unnecessarily when the mountain calls (pdf), Die Presse, October 2016
• When the mail arrives by drone, Der Standard, January 2016
• A park full of new ideas, Kleine Zeitung, January 2016
• Wireless above the clouds (pdf), Die Presse, January 2016
• Being imperfect is sometimes better (pdf), Kleine Zeitung, May 2015
• Innovators and masterminds, WIRED, Portrait of Samira Hayat, February 2015
• Robots explore environments, Kleine Zeitung, Interview with Torsten Andre, December 2014
• Carinthian of the day: Samira Hayat, Kleine Zeitung, August 2014
• “I have always been a rebel” (pdf), Der Standard, Interview Samira Hayat, June 2014
• Drones in peace missions, Der Standard, July 2013
• Smart network for factory halls, Wirtschaftsblatt, July 2013
• Car 1 to Car 2 (pdf), Der Standard, November 2012
• Let’s do it like the ants (pdf), Der Standard, July 2011
• “Nobody likes to call the sysadmin” (pdf), Der Standard, Interview with Christian Bettstetter, Febr. 2011
• Joining forces against radio silence (pdf), Der Standard, April 2010
• Think tank for a mobile future (pdf), Kleine Zeitung, April 2008
• The future of mobile phones (pdf), Kleine Zeitung, March 2008
• Wishes of young top scientists (pdf), at.venture, December 2007
• “We do it like the fireflies” (pdf), Der Standard, Interview with Christian Bettstetter, July 2007
• Bits against fire, Financial Times Deutschland, May 2006
• The invasion of the Masters of Science, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Report on MSCE program, January 1999

University Magazine, Blog, and Newsletter

• More resilient to shocks and crises: New COMET Center with a budget of € 22.8 million, June 2026
• Early university access, a semester in Dublin …, Interview with Christoph Rauter, July 2025
• Achieving wireless communication between devices, Portrait of Udo Schilcher on the occasion of his habilitation, August 2024
• Digitalization scholarships awarded …, Dec 2023
• Physics in action: Excursion to the Technical Museum Vienna for students …, Mar. 2023
• U of Klagenfurt has awarded its most outstanding lecturers with the Teaching Prize 2022, Nov. 2022
• Graduates of U of Klagenfurt awarded digitization scholarships by the State of Carinthia, Nov. 2022
• Samira Hayat is one of the 10 Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications, July 2022
• “Research and cultural diversity widened my horizons”, Interview with Pasquale Grippa, June 2021
• A tricky aspect of synchronisation: What happens when too many impulses jam the system?, Jan 2021
• “Drones are here to stay. Get used to it.” (pdf), Interview with C. Bettstetter, October 2018
• Flying high with reduced weight (pdf), March 2018
• One time for all: Synchronising time in drone swarms, Interview with Agata Gnieweck, February 2018
• Interference prediction in wireless networks, Interview with Mahin Atiq, May 2017
• In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones, Interview with Raheeb Muzaffar, September 2016
• “I never made plans” (pdf), Interview with Samira Hayat, April 2016
• The joy of discovery (pdf), Interview with Christian Bettstetter, June 2013
• Robustness of WLAN communications, October 2011
• Interview with Evsen Yanmaz, 2009
• The fascination of information, Interview with Christian Bettstetter, December 2005

Press Releases

• Carinthia to host a COMET research center unique in Europe, Government of Carinthia, June 2026
• More resilient to shocks and crises: New COMET Center with a budget of € 22.8 million, University of Klagenfurt, June 2026
• COMET Centers: € 47.4 million for applied research to strengthen Austria as a center of economic activity, Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG), June 2026
• Europe’s largest flight hall for drone research is in Klagenfurt, Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BM:K), January 2020
• Lakeside Labs: Self-organizing networked systems, Lakeside Labs, December 2014
• Lakeside Labs and Toni Polster: A self-organizing World Cup prediction game, Lakeside Labs, June 2014
• A swarm of peaceful drones, Lakeside Labs, June 2013

Newsletters, Blogs, and Podcasts

• Multi-robot systems: uses and benefits, Podcast EUVATION, August 2019
• Drone meets science: University of Klagenfurt and Magenta Telekom perform research for support from the air, Magenta blog, July 2019
• Unmanned aerial vehicle communications: Opportunities and challenges, IEEE ComSoc TCCN Newsletter, December 2018
• Drones get to grips with planning the delivery of goods, ACM TechNews, July 2017
• Efficient time synchronization of sensor networks by means of time series analysis, ACM TechNews, January 2017

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