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Big data is growing at the University of Salzburg

The University of Salzburg relies on cooperation between a wide range of research areas.

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The University of Salzburg is focusing on the further expansion of the new Faculty of Digital Sciences (DAS), which combines future-oriented areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and geoinformatics. Three new professors were introduced. 

Two years ago, the University of Salzburg founded the Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences (DAS). It still hurts that the new University of Digital Sciences is being established in Linz. However, this will strengthen Salzburg as a research location. The new faculty with 150 academic staff and 3,000 students is more than fifty percent financed by third-party funding. Students can already choose from four Bachelor's and seven Master's degree courses as well as two subjects for teacher training. 

And further expansion is planned. "The DAS, which is based on the departments of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces as well as Geoinformatics, Computer Science and Mathematics, has strengthened its staff," says a satisfied Dean Arne Bathke. 

The three professors Frank Pallas, Christine Bauer and Frank-Benjamin Mocnik.

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Three new professors have just been appointed. The whole world was already looking at researcher Christine Bauer. She studied international economics, business informatics and saxophone. Her study on the musical tastes of countries with valuable data for streaming platforms caused a sensation. She was joined by communications expert Franz-Benjamin Mocnik and Franz Pallas, a bridge builder between technology and law.