Prof. Dr. Josef Langer

Dr. Josef Langer is working since more than 10 years in the smart card and terminal hardware area. He studied electrical engineering at the TU Vienna and RWTH Aachen and received his PhD in Computer Science from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. Josef also holds a Master degree in philosophy and history from the University of Vienna.

Josef holds the position of a professor for microprocessor engineering at the University Of Applied Sciences Of Upper Austria since January 2003. In 2007 he was appointed as Chief Technology Officer at NEXPERTS GmbH, a leading NFC solutions provider, based in Hagenberg, Austria.

Josef is head of the NFC Research Lab and head of the Research Group Embedded Systems at his university. He is author of more than 30 publications. His current research interests are Near Field Communication and embedded real time systems.