Revolutionizing Battery Technology: AI and the Future of Energy Storage

The quality of batteries affects many aspects of our daily lives: Will we arrive at our holiday destination in our electric car? Can we be reached on our smartphones? Does the hearing aid still have plenty of power late at night? Mohamed El Bahnasawi is working on making batteries smarter and more efficient as part of the EU Horizon Europe project ‘Battery Cell Assembly Twin (BatCAT)’. The aim is to use artificial intelligence to learn more about the processes in the batteries in order to be able to use them more efficiently in the future.

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Empathising with literary characters – and thus learning about one’s own emotional world

Anes Osmić, literary scholar and author, has a pragmatic approach to using literature: reading should teach us specific, practical lessons. In his doctoral thesis, which the Senior Scientist at the University of Sarajevo is writing at the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, he addresses the issue of emotional literacy, and how it can be developed with the help of literature. He is currently the recipient of the Lejla Hairlahović-Hušić Scholarship from the War Childhood Museum and the Lejla Hairlahović-Hušić Foundation.

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Greater efficiency along the ‘middle mile’ in logistics as a result of collaboration between companies

When goods are delivered from A to B, a significant part of the journey involves transporting shipments between warehouses, hub facilities and distribution centres. A research team working on the COMMIT project, which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, is developing technologies to prevent vehicles from travelling this ‘middle mile’ empty or with low load utilisation. The project is co-located at the University of Vienna and the University of Klagenfurt.

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Ada Lovelace Programme presented at kick-off event

The Ada Lovelace Programme was established in 2023 with the aim of developing new potential for cooperation in the thematic area of Humans in the Digital Age (HDA) and to further strengthen cross-disciplinary research networking efforts. In a competitive award procedure, the Rectorate selected a total of six research projects (each with one pre-doc position, some of which not yet filled) in the course of two calls for proposals (May 2023 and May 2024) after consulting the Research Council. The research projects were recently presented at a kick-off event.

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