Professor Dr.-Ing. Harald Bachem

Harald K. Bachem has held the Research Corner Professorship for Vehicle Safety since 2021, making him one of the first ten researchers at Ostfalia to receive this award.

The model of research corner professorships, which is associated with a longer-term plannable teaching relief for research activities and the profiling of research topics, was introduced at Ostfalia University to promote professors with strong research skills. The holders of a research corner professorship must fulfil extensive requirements, have acquired third-party funding and published important publications; in return, they will benefit from an interesting amount of teaching leave in the future and they will be highlighted in the faculties. In particular, the professorships are intended to make Ostfalia's research achievements even more visible and to communicate them to the outside world.

Further information on the research corner professorships at Ostfalia can be found here (external link, opens in a new window).

• Seminar leader in numerous industry seminars on vehicle safety
• Expert for the European Commission in the context of project applications and project reports (e.g. EU Horizon programmes)
• Expert for road accidents
• Expert in the context of accreditation and doctoral procedures
• Long-standing scientific director of the DIQ Symposium (German Institute for Quality Promotion)
• Internationalisation representative of the Faculty of Automotive Engineering
• Long-standing member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Automotive Engineering
• Long-standing Chairman of the Board of the VDI Braunschweig District Association
• Member of the working group of professors for automotive engineering at universities of applied sciences
• Founding member of CEMO (Centre for Energy and Mobility at Ostfalia University)

• Research corner professorship for vehicle safety at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences
• Borchers Plaque of the RWTH Aachen University