Speakers - WNRC2025

Biography

Dr. Bernd Blobel studied Mathematics, Technical Cybernetics, Electronics, Bio-Cybernetics, Physics, Medicine, and Informatics at the University of Magdeburg and other universities in the former GDR. He received his PhD in Physics with a neurophysiological study. Furthermore, he performed the Habilitation (qualification as university professor) in Medicine and Informatics. He was Head of the Institute for Biometrics and Medical Informatics at the University of Magdeburg and Head of the Health Telematics Project Group at the Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen. After that, he acted until retirement as Head of the German National eHealth Competence Center at the University of Regensburg and Head of the globally unique International Interdisciplinary PhD and PostDoc College. He was and is still leadingly involved in many countries' health digitalization and electronic health record strategy. He published more than 600 papers, published/edited many books, and supervised a large number of PhD students from all around the world. He was a German Representative to many SDOs such as HL7, ISO, CEN, OMG, IEEE, ASTM, SNOMED, etc., also chairing the national mirror groups.

Furthermore, he is still engaged in international higher education. He is a Fellow of several international academies. His extended publication list is available at https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/view/people/Blobel=3ABernd=3A=3A.html.