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Bernd J. Krämer is Professor Emeritus of FernUniversität in Hagen. He has been Chairman of ServTech since 2007 and Honorary Chairman of edu-sharing.net since 2021 after serving on the board since 2009. He was a co-founder of these two non-profit research associations. He has been a guest professor at several renowned universities, including Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the International Computer Science Institute affiliated with UC Berkeley, Monash University in Melbourne, and the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.
Biography
Krämer has had a lifelong interest in software engineering. He has pioneered a modelling approach for concurrent and distributed software systems that combines high-level Petri nets and algebraic specifications of abstract data types. With the advent of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, he also focused on software development for educational applications. A more recent contribution is a networked repository, edu–sharing, which supports the sharing, reuse, and adaptation of digital learning resources, including educational content, codified know-how and pedagogical methods, and learning tools. More recently, he has applied his modelling skills to enable flexible manufacturing networks and improve healthcare processes. He has published his research results in academic journal articles, books, book chapters, refereed conference proceedings, and expert reports.
Krämer studied electrical engineering and computer science and received his computer science diploma and his engineering doctorate from Technische Universität Berlin. Several of his students and collaborators have gone on to become leading figures in industry and academia.
Professional Activities
Bernd Krämer is active in several non-profit associations and scientific communities. He serves as Honorary Chairman of edu-sharing.net and Chairman of ServTech, the Scientific Academy for Service Technology. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC, from 2007-2023, and served as Past President and Board Member of the Society for Design & Process Science (SDPS). He became an SDPS Fellow in 2003, an IRARIA Fellow in 2011, and received the SDPS Priscilla and Raymond T. Yeh Award in 2006. He was a member of the Intelligent Education Networks project group of the Digital Summit and of the Supervisory Board of FernUniversität in Hagen 2008-2013.
EU Research Projects
Krämer has been involved in EU-funded research since 1984. His first project was GRASPIN (FP1, 1984-1989), one of the first EU projects addressing formal specification and systematic program development. Subsequently he served as ServTech’s project manager in the FP7 project IMAGINE and the HORIZON 2020 and HORIZON Europe projects ICP4Life, Qualitop, and Oncoscreen. He currently leads ServTech’s work in the Horizon Europe project NARRATE, focusing on regenerative resilient smart manufacturing networks.
