Category: Research Activities

Description: At the beginning of April, the NERO COST Action members came together for the Working Group Assembly (April 3rd and 4th) and Management Committee meeting (April 5th) at the Impact Hub in Athens, Greece. DEFSYS Team lead Bernhard Garn participated as a Working Group and Management Committee member for Austria at these meetings. The…

On April 8, 2024, the MATRIS Research Group and the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) research program members of IIASA convened for the ECE Seminar at the headquarters of IIASA at Schloss Laxenburg, while approximately 25 members from both parties participated remotely. Throughout the seminar, Dimitris Simos, the head of the MATRIS research group, led…

🔍 Exploring Global Solutions:The PH-US-UNCTAD Harnessing STI for DRR Workshop convened in Manila, Philippines from February 29 to March 1, 2024. With delegates from 44 UNCSTD member states, Dr. Dimitris Simos, head of MATRIS Group, represented Austria and its STI (Science, Technology, Innovation) efforts related to DRR (Disaster Risk Reduction) as the workshop aimed to…

Description: We are happy to share the outstanding news that Irene Hiess has successfully defended her master’s thesis on the fascinating topic “Exact Methods of Generation of Covering Arrays”. On March 13th, Irene Hiess showcased her expertise, dedication, and unwavering commitment to state-of-the-art research, earning from all examiners the highest possible grade. Irene, who started…

Copyright: Martin Schmiedecker Description: The MATRIS Applied Research Consulting Team organized the second meetup of the Automotive Security Meetup series for the automotive community at SBA Research. The meeting format of the Automotive Security Research Group (ASRG Vienna) aims to foster discussion about ideas, methods, and testing techniques to improve the know-how of security testing…

Commend‘s software engineers and product experts are working closely with SBA Research as part of the “Symphony: Intercom as a Cloud Service” project. © Commend One part of the project has now been brought to a highly successful conclusion. Since March 2022, the joint team of experts had been focusing on Commend’s software development in order to…

We are congratulating Bernhard Garn for being accepted to the IRDR’s (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk) Young Scientist Programme. IRDR is cosponsored by the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and supported by the China Association of Science and Technology (CAST). The International Programme Office of IRDR…

We are happy to announce that the 13th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2024) will be held at the end of May 2024 in Toronto, Canada, co-located with ICST 2024. For interested parties, CfP is available via this link. MATRIS lead; Dimitris Simos will serve as the general chair, while the workshop’s PC will…

Description: On Oct 17, 2023, Bernhard Garn joined as MC member of Austria the meeting MC1 of the COST Action NERO (CA22164 – european Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOr). This meeting marks the start of this COST Action, which focuses on novel fire regimes characterized by extreme events. NERO’s objectives include: The goals and activities…

On Monday, October 9, 2023, Bernhard successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled ‘Design Theory Methods and their Applications to the Science of Security’ in his defensio. The committee was chaired by Martina Lindorfer (TU Wien) and in addition consisted of Edgar Weippl (University of Vienna), Rachel Tzoref-Brill (IBM Research), D. Richard Kuhn (US NIST) and…