Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard – Chief Officer Digitalisation and Information Management

Portrait Prof. Bernard © Robert Lohse

If processes do not become more efficient, effective, secure or cost-effective through digitalisation, they are not or not yet suitable for digitalisation. 

Table of contents

    1. Responsibilities
    2. CV
    3. Team and contact details
    4. Discoveries
Visualisierung Gehirn mit digitalen Schaltstellen © panthermedia

Targets

Digitalisation for the support and flexibility of excellent learning, teaching, research and living at TU Dresden is the main goal of the Chief Officer Digitalisation and Information. A fundamental prerequisite for this is to ensure and further develop an efficient, secure, responsible, sustainable and future-orientated information and IT management.

Ein Mann und eine Frau sitzen vor ihren Laptops im Gebäude der Fakultät Informatik © TU Dresden

Tasks

The team develops strategies for digitalisation and information management at TU Dresden as a trans-departmental task. These strategies are always orientated towards the needs of teaching and research and ensure that performant IT environments are available. Digitalisation projects are initiated as reference prototypes and accompanied into their successful operation.

Vortragender mit laptop vor einem Publikum © panthermedia

Values

Powerful IT facilities at TU Dresden not only support innovative approaches to data science, they are also an essential basis for the creation of reproducible science with the goal of making research transparent and comprehensible to society.

Responsibilities

The Chief Officer Digitalisation and Information develops strategies for digitalisation in teaching, research and administration, as well as for the responsible use of IT, securing IT equipment and IT administration at TU Dresden. As a member of the Extended University Executive Board, the Chief Officer Digitalisation and Information Management monitors the implementation of these strategies.

CV

since 08/2020 Chief Officer Digitalisation and Information Management at TU Dresden
2019–2020 Chairperson for the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering / TU Dresden
2018–2020 Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences / TU Dresden
since 2015 Professor for Geoinformatics at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences / TU Dresden
2007–2015 Chair of Geographic Information Systems / TU Dresden
2003-2007 Scientific Officer of the European Commission / EC Joint Research Center / Ispra (Italy)      
2003 Deputy Head of Chair of Geoinformatics / WWU Münster
2001–2003

Academic Assistent und group leader  /
Institut für Geoinformatik / WWU Münster
2001 PhD (Geoinformatics) / WWU Münster
1995

Diploma (Geography/Landscape ecology) / WWU Münster
Positions in teacing and research
since 2019 Spokesperson NFDI4Earth
2013–2020 CIO of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering / TU Dresden
2013–2019 Chairperson of the Department of Geosciences / TU Dresden
2011–2018 Study Coordinator for the Geoinformation Technologies Master’s programme / TU Dresden
2010–2013 Dean of Studies Geodesy, Cartography and Geoinformation Technologies / TU Dresden
seit 2010 Member of the Faculty Board of Environmental Sciences / TU Dresden
2007–2013 Representative of the Faculty in the Data Processing Commission / TU Dresden
2002–2003 Member of the Department Committee Geosciences / WWU Münster
1998–2003 Member of the Examination Committee Diplom Geoinformatics / WWU Münster
Honours and awards
since 2013 Member of the German Geodetic Commission (DGK)
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
since 2003 Numerous Invitations
to national and international keynotes and expert discussions on the conception and development of geoinformation infrastructures
2000 Award from WWU Münster
for an outstanding PhD
1998 NSF Scholarship
Varenius Specialist Meeting Ontology of Fields / Bar Harbour / Maine (USA)
1995 ESF Scholarship
GISDATA Specialist Meeting: GIS and Spatial Models – New Potential for New Models / Stockholm (Sweden)
Engagement für Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft
2020

Steering Committee Dresden Nexus Conference
since 2018 Mentor for PIKOBYTES GmbH
2014–2019 Spokesperson of the Geoinformatics Department of the German Geodetic Commission
2014-2017 Co-Chair Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE)
since 2014 Member of the Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures (RFII)
since 2014 National Delegate Academia European Spatial Data Research (EuroSDR)
2007–2016

Council Member Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE)
2014–2018 Member Editorial Board Environmental Modelling & Software
2007–2010

Chair Editorial Board Journal GIS.Science
since 2012 Scientific representative in the Steering Committee of the GDI-DE
since 2008 Member of the Advisory Board of 52°North GmbH
2008–2014 Member of the Steering Committee of GDI Saxony

Team and contact details

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Office of the Chief Officer Digitalisation and Information Management

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Rektoratsgebäude Mommsenstraße 11

01069 Dresden

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Technische Universität Dresden Rektorat

01062 Dresden

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Technische Universität Dresden Rektorat Helmholtzstraße 10

01069 Dresden

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Vera Küchenmeister

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Rektoratsgebäude, Raum 312 Mommsenstraße 11

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Alexandra Schwanebeck

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Mommsenstraße 11, 314.1

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Multi-project Manager
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Ms Veronika Liebke

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Acting Managing Director of IT Strategy and Decentral Services
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Dr. Matthias Lohse

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Discoveries

Rechenzentrum von Innen; Kühlsystem © Robert Gommlich

Computing Centre of the Lehmann Centre

Although unremarkable from the outside, the inner workings of the Computing Centre are something to behold: not only are there high-performance computers and storage complexes, but also innovative cooling systems that feed waste heat into a system to supply other buildings of TU Dresden. A guided tour of this building during the Long Night of Science is recommended. Learn more

junge Menschen an Forschung zu Mobilität © SLUB Dresden/Lukas Boxberger

SLUB-Makerspace

While perhaps not the pearl of the campus, the atmosphere in and idea behind SLUB Makerspace in DrePunct is inspiring and offers the perfect environment for creative projects, hackathons, and workshops with the support of a great team. Learn more

Hülssegarten 2 © Nils Eisfeld

Hülsse Park

A small green retreat on the TU Dresden campus. With a bit of luck, you can find a quiet bench for a team meeting or a lunch break amongst the greenery here – after which you are just a stone’s throw away from the café “insgrüne” (Georg Schumann Building), where you can round it all off perfectly with a cappuccino. Learn more

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