Bernhard Jäger

Bernhard Jäger is Department Lead at SYNYO GmbH with a focus on security research. He holds a master degree in sociology, a bachelor of arts in communication studies and technical college diploma on informatics. As project researcher and coordinator, he has approved long term experience in successfully concepting and managing social and ICT based research projects. Before he started to work for SYNYO he was a project researcher at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna where he gathered extensive knowledge on criminal behaviour, policing, crowd control, criminal justice and crime prevention. Besides his expertise on qualitative and quantitative research methods he also gained experience in usability, accessibility, user experience methods, user interface prototyping and design. At SYNYO Bernhard was concepting and managing a multitude of projects in different funding programmes in the security domain such as FP7, Horizon 2020, HORIZON EUROPE, ISF and EDF in which he extended his knowledge on topics such as cyber security, organized crime and terrorist networks, radicalization prevention and disaster resilience. Since 2018 Bernhard is strongly involved in Innovation Procurement projects and coordinated the iProcureSecurity CSA project. Currently he is coordinating the follow-up project iProcureSecurity PCP with a focus on innovating triage management across Europe including 9 procurers from 5 different countries. Since 2023 he works also as an independent expert for the European Research Executive Agency (REA) on evaluation of applications and project reviews.