BIOGRAPHY

Josef Langer,
Professor and Head of NFC Research Lab Hagenberg,
University Applied Sciences Upper Austria

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 the RWTH Aachen and philosophy and history at 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 of 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.