Josef A. Nossek - Biography
Degrees Earned
1980
Doctor degree, University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
1974
Diplom Ingenieur degree, University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Positions Held
2014
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW).
2010
Guest Professor at the Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
2007-2010
Member of the Senate, Member of the University Board, Technische Universität München (TUM)
2007
Guest Professor at the Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
2005-today
Member of the Advisory Board of the Information Technology Department of the Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
2005
Guest Professor at the Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
2002-2005
Dean of Studies, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität München (TUM)
2002-2005
Dean of Studies Spokesperson, Technische Universität München (TUM)
1999-2002
Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität München (TUM)
1995
Guest Professor at the University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
1992
Guest Researcher at the University of California at Berkeley
1989-today
Head of the Institute of Network Theory and Circuit Design (now Institute of Circuit Theory and Signal Processing), Full Professor, Technische Universität München (TUM)
1987-1989
Head of the Radio Systems Design Department of Siemens AG
1984
Guest Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
1982-1987
Head of the Department for Modulation Techniques for Microwave Digital Radio of Siemens AG, responsible for high data rate modems employing multi-level modulation techniques
1980-1982
Head of the Filter Design Department of Siemens AG, responsible for electromechanical, microwave and digital filter design activities
1978-1980
Supervisor of a Group of Design Engineers of Siemens AG working on discrete-time circuits (switched-capacitor and CCD-filters)
1974-1978
Member of Technical Staff of Siemens AG, working on design of filters for communication systems
Society Activities
2013-2014
President EUREL (The Convention of National Associations of Electrical Engineers of Europe)
2012-2013
Vice President EUREL (The Convention of National Associations of Electrical Engineers of Europe)
2009-today
Member of acatech (Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften)
2009-2010
Vice President of the Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V. (VDE)
2007-2008
President of the Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V. (VDE)
2005-2007
Vice President of the Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V. (VDE)
1995-2005
Speaker of the ITG Focus Project „Systems with Smart Antennas“
1992-1999
Member of the VDE-Committee for Education of Electrical Engineers
1992-1999
Representative of the State of Bavaria in the Committee of EE Departments of Germany
1990-today
Member of URSI, Commission C: Signals and Systems
1990-2002
Member of the ITG Committee for Circuits and Systems
1985-1997
Member of the ITG Committee for System and Information Theory
1975-today
Member of VDE/ITG
IEEE Activities
2011-2014
Member of the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award Committee
2001-2003
President-elect, President, Past President of the Circuits and Systems Society (CAS)
2000
Tutorials Chairman ISCAS 2000
1998-2000
Member of the Board of Governors of the CAS Society
1997
Technical Program Chair of ICASSP ´97
1995-1997
Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Fundamental Theory and Applications
1995
Chair of the Committee for the „Darlington Award“ of the CAS Society
1994-2000
Chair of the CAS Chapter of the German Section of IEEE
1993
Guest Editor, Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Parts I and II, Special Issue on Cellular Neural Networks
1991-1993
Associate Editor of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Fundamental Theory and Applications
Awards
2014
VDE Ring of Honor for Achievements in Research and Development
2013
Honorary doctorate (Dr. h. c.) of the Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
2011
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award
2008
IEEE CAS Education Award
2008
Best University Lecturer (Dozentenpreis), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität München (TUM)
1999
IEEE CAS Golden Jubilee Medal for outstanding contributions to the society
1998
Innovations Prize for Excellent Scientific Contribution to Mobile Communications awarded by the Mannesmann (now Vodafone) Foundation for Research
1998
Prize for Excellent Teaching awarded by the Bavarian Ministry for Science, Research and Art
1993
Election to the Grade Fellow of IEEE for contributions to the design of discrete-time networks and for technical leadership in the development of radio communication systems
1988
Best Paper Award of VDE/ITG
1981
Election to the Grade Senior Member of IEEE
Further Activities
Thirty-seven students have been awarded their Doctorate degree under the supervision of Professor Nossek. Six of the doctoral students have received an award for their excellent doctoral theses. Seven of the doctorates are now tenured university professors.
Professor Nossek has been on the editorial board of more than eight international scientific journals as well as guest editor of at least four special issues. He has organized and moderated numerous special sessions at international conferences and workshops. He holds more than 20 patents.
