LKR - Key Persons

AIT Austrian

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Institute of Technology GmbH - Managing Director

Alessandro Trenti

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Experimental Quantum Optics

Alexander Scharinger

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Software Development for Terrestrial and Satellite - Based Quantum Key Distribution: Post Processing and Key Management

Alexander Svejkovsky

al..@ait.ac.at

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Managing Director Finance, Processes & Administration

Alexander Svejkovsky, Managing Director of Finance, Processes and Administration, is responsible for all business matters, real estate and digital infrastructure and is also the interface with the public sector. Alexander Svejkovsky (50) has been CFO of AIT for many years and has a wealth of experience and deep knowledge of the domestic RTI scene. At the same time, he distinguished himself at AIT by handling many projects - for example in the end-to-end digitalization of all business processes.

Anagha Athavale

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Security & Communication Technologies

Andreas Kugi

an..@ait.ac.at

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Scientific Director
Professor for Complex Dynamical Systems at Technische Universität Wien
Scientific Director of the AIT

Andreas Kugi is a full professor for Complex Dynamical Systems at Technische Universität Wien, Austria, and since 07/2023, he has been the Scientific Director of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. He received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Technische Universität Graz, Austria, in 1992 and a Ph.D. (Dr.techn.) from the Johannes Kepler Universität (JKU), Linz, Austria, in 1995. In 2000, he got the Habilitation in the field of control theory and automatic control at JKU, and he was a full professor for system theory and automatic control at Saarland University in Germany from 2002 to 2007. He was offered full professor positions at Technische Universität Dresden and the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. As Scientific Director of the AIT, Andreas Kugi shapes the scientific profile in the key research areas and is responsible for the successful positioning in research and technology development at a top international level. Andreas Kugi (55) is Professor of Complex Dynamic Systems at the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) at TU Wien and, together with Andreas Vrabl, has headed the AIT Centers for Vision, Automation & Control since 2017. Kugi is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Andreas Martin

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Innovation Management

Andrés Carrasco

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Lead Engineer, SW Architectures, Interoperability / Research Engineer

Anna Baumann

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Transportation Infrastructure Technologies

Anna Lobianco

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Grant Application Expert

Anton Beck

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Sustainable Thermal Energy Systems - Research Engineer

Astrid Al-Akrawi

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Cooperative Digital Technologies - Junior Scientist
Data Space Technologies

Aurel Ramon Arnoldt

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Light Metals Technologies - Scientist

Benjamin Akhras

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Lead Architect Taranis - Ai, Https: / / Taranis - Ai
Security & Communication Technologies - Senior Technician

Bernhard Bürger

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Public Safety

Bernhard Skarbal

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Environmental Data Management

Bernhard Strobl

be..@ait.ac.at

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Thematic Coordinator /

Bernhard Ömer

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Quantum Information Theory

Brigitte Bach

br..@ait.ac.at

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Managing Director, Spokesperson of the Management Board
Spokesperson of the Management Board of the AIT

As Spokesperson of the Management Board of the AIT, Brigitte Bach is responsible for the strategic positioning of the research institute as well as for external relations and the product portfolio. Physicist Brigitte Bach (57) played a key role in the development and strategic positioning of energy research at AIT from 1999 to 2018, most recently as Head of the Center for Energy. From 2018 on, she was Head of Telecommunications, Electromobility and New Business Areas at Wien Energie, after which she worked as Director of Salzburg AG.