Franz Puntigam

Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Franz Puntigam is an Associate Professor at the Department of Compilers and Languages within the Faculty of Informatics at Technische Universität Wien. His research focuses on programming paradigms, type systems, object-oriented programming, and concurrent programming. He teaches courses such as Programming Paradigms, Type Systems, and Scientific Research and Writing.

Dr. Puntigam’s work explores foundational aspects of programming languages, emphasizing concurrency and type system design. His research includes studies on synchronization mechanisms, contextual execution environments, and design methodologies for robotic software systems. His publications span topics like token-based synchronization, dynamic process types, and aliasing effects in object-oriented languages.

He supervises numerous diploma and master’s theses on advanced topics such as concurrency in Java, type systems for configuration languages, and actor-based programming. His contributions to education and research are further reflected in his involvement with projects like migrating business software from VB to Java/Unix.