His design service and research activities focus on the need to improve the early aerospace systems forecasting and optimization decision-making process for future aircraft and space launch vehicles, enabling technologies, and transportation architectures. Working with industry for more than 25 years, Bernd has been developing conceptual design tools for advanced and future aircraft with the Future Projects Departments of Airbus Industrie (Toulouse, France), British Aerospace (Bristol, England), Aérospatiale Airbus (Toulouse, France), DaimlerChrysler Airbus (Hamburg, Germany) and Fairchild Dornier, Germany. He has earned his Dipl.-Ing. Degree in aerospace at the University of Applied Sciences FH, Aachen, Germany, his M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in aircraft design at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, England.