As president of the University of Applied Sciences (UAS), Bremen, Mr. Schreiber oversees a University with 8500 students and 440 members of staff. Together, tradition and progress have made the Bremen UAS what it is today. An institution whose roots go back to the year 1799, the Bremen UAS now com-prises a spectrum of fields that takes its orientation from the future. In this course of its development internationality has become its trade mark. In recognition of its pioneering profile, the Bremen UAS was honoured with a large number of national and international awards. In 2005, e. g., the UAS Bremen has been decorated with the DAAD European quality award “Socrates/Erasmus”.

The Bremen UAS is a member of the group of 7 Universities of Applied Sciences which joined to the network UAS 7. UAS 7 operates a liaison office in New York City in the German House (www.uas7.com).

Prior to joining the Hochschule Bremen, Elmar Schreiber was director at Princeton University, NJ. As a laser and molecule physicist directed the Center for Ultrafast Laser Applications at Princeton’s chemistry department for nearly four years.

Elmar Schreiber habilitated at the Free University Berlin in the field of femtosecond laser spectroscopy of small molecules and clusters. He published besides a Springer Verlag monograph over 70 articles on that subject. Mr. Schreiber did his Ph. D. in solid state physics working on ultrafast exciton and quantum beat dynamics.