Josef van Genabith is one of the scientific directors of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where he heads the Multilingual Language Technologies (MLT) Lab. He is a professor at Saarland University (Chair of Translation-Oriented Language Technologies). He was founding Director of CNGL, Centre for Next Generation Localisation (now ADAPT), Director of the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) and Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer and Lecturer at the School of Computing, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany, and obtained a PhD and MA at the University of Essex, UK. His first degree was in Electrical Engineering and English at RWTH Aachen, Germany.