University of Kassel, Head of Chair for Computer Architecture and System Programming, Kassel, Germany.

Josef Börcsök was born in 1959. He received his B.Sc. degree in 1986 (University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt), the M.Sc. degree in 1991 (University of Kassel) and the Ph.D. in 1995 (Technical University of Ilmenau). He was for more than 10 years researchers in leading positions in the industry (Avionics, Industrial control and Safety-Computer). During this time he lectures at universities, as well as at universities of applied sciences with lectures of automation systems, computer technology, real-time systems, network techniques and safety-related computer technology. Since 2005 he is Professor and head of the Department Computer architecture and System programming at the University of Kassel in Germany.