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* This profile page is created/updated for the 1st IAHR Online Forum (July 5-7, 2021) * Dr. Bernd Manfred Gawlik is Portfolio Leader at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, where he coordinates the activities on water quality. Recruited by the European Commission in 1999, he holds an Engineer degree from the French Higher Institute for Industrial Chemistry and a Ph.D. on Natural Sciences from Technical University of Munich. In the past two decades he has been working an all major European environmental directives involving chemical monitoring and pollutants of emerging concern. He is a closely involved in the Common Implementation Strategy of the Water Framework Directive, umbrella under which he co-designed the Water Reuse Regulation. During the pandemic, Bernd united the European actors and stakeholder on wastewater-based epidemiology and ensured the speedy translation from knowledge to action as expressed by the respective Recommendation of the European Commission. Bernd, who closely and equally interacts with all actors around “water”, is author/co-author of more than 100 scientific paper, books and reports of the European Commission and promotes novel approaches on water diplomacy based on sciences and arts. Based on his background he is also leading the JRC contribution to the UN Environment's World Water Quality Alliance and GEMS Water.

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