”As a board member I would like to focus on topics related to research and development in the field of machine vision, image processing and other methods of optical inspection. I consider it as our common goal bringing together European research institutes and facilities on a European level. As a representative of the applied Research and Development I also want to work on increasing the cooperation between research institutes and companies in order to strengthen the European industry and competitiveness on the world market. In this context, another key issue is the establishment of a European research program for machine vision technologies of the future.”
Short CV
Dr.-Ing. Dirk Berndt is Head of the Business Unit »Measurement and Testing Technology« at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF) in Magdeburg, Germany. Effective January 1st, 2021, he has been appointed to Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer IFF.
Dr. Berndt has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF in Magdeburg, Germany, for almost 30 years. He has been working as a department manager since 1998. After receiving his PhD in 2008 he took over the position of a business manager in the field of measuring and testing technology.
Always having been a networker, Dirk Berndt also represents the Fraunhofer Vision Alliance, a network within the Fraunhofer Society consisting of 15 institutes and more than 500 scientists, where he has been a member of the professional advisory board since 2010.
Since 2018 Dirk Berndt is member of the EMVA Board of Directors and in this role he represents the EMVA in the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders.
