Josef Weinbub was an Associate Professor of High Performance Simulation in Micro- and Nanoelectronics. He obtained the doctoral degree in Computational Microelectronics and the venia docendi (habilitation) in the field of Micro- and Nanoelectronics from the TU Wien. He was a visiting researcher at the EPCC, University of Edinburgh and at the Device Modelling Group, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK as well as at SILVACO Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA. He founded the master’s program Computational Science and Engineering at the TU Wien and served as the chair of the curriculum commission since the inception of the program. He was involved with several international scientific conferences in various management and scientific roles. He was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Electronics and a Principal Investigator of various research projects funded by, e.g., the Austrian Science Fund and the Christian Doppler Research Association. Together with his team he investigated cutting-edge research problems in the area of computational micro- and nanoelectronics. Josef Weinbub is an IEEE Senior Member and served as the Co-Chair of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council's Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee.

As of May 1, 2024, Josef Weinbub has moved into industry.