Bernd Strehmel accepted his professorship for Coatings and New Materials
at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in 2011. Since 2017,
he has chaired the Institute for Coatings and Surface Chemistry at the
same institution in Krefeld. In the master module Green
Chemistry , he has taught Technical Photochemistry since 2017.
Prior to this, after completing his PhD at the Technical University of
Merseburg, he pursued research at several national (TU Berlin,
Humboldt-University of Berlin, University of Potsdam) and international
universities (Stanford University, Bowling Green State University-Center
for Photochemical Sciences) before he moved to Kodak after completion
his habilitation at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. There, he worked
in R&D for the development of Computer to Plate materials for the
graphic industry. He additionally has been a member of the reviewer
board of the German Research Council (DFG) in the field 406: Material
Science (Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials) from 2016. In
the German Chemical Society (GDCh), he was a member of the board of the
Photochemistry division, which he chaired from 2018 to 2021.
Picture: Bernd Strehmel