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On December 1, Bernhard Reber has taken over the position of
General Manager of Co-Me after a transitional phase during which the
newly elected first "Thomas Straumann Professor für
Materialwissenschaft in der Medizin" and former Co-Me General Manager
Bert Müller worked side by side with his successor.
Bernhard Reber was born in Bern, 1957. He received his PhD from the
Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bern in the field of
Microwave Remote Sensing. His research activities were focused on
electromagnetic wave scattering in random media.
For the following nine years he was with the Swiss Science Council,
advisory board of the Federal Council. In the position of a
'wissenschaftlicher Berater' he headed FER - the Early Warning System
for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy. In close cooperation
with representatives from science, industry and politics he provided
studies and science based information for decision making,
i.e. regarding research priorities, national programs or new
initiatives toward the exploitation of research results.
In 1998 he joined AO-International in the position of a general
secretary, among other duties focusing on the orientation of training
activities toward the implementation of ICT, interactive tools and
digitized media.
Feeling comfortable to be in the frontline of new initiatives,
Bernhard Reber accepted to participate as a general manager in
creating and running Ecademy, the National Network of Competence of
the Universities of applied science for IT-management and E-Business.
With Ecademy he emphasized the features of developing applied research
with Industry (CTI, network-projects etc.) and of selling executive
training and services.
Since 2005 he was an independent science consultant and just now
finalized the evaluation of the impact of the National Research
Programs (NFP/SNSF) on behalf of the Swiss State Secretariate for
Education&Research.
Bernhard Reber has broad cultural interests and he enjoys that his
private life is widely dominated by his seven years old daughter.
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