Bernd Lorenz (born April 21, 1959) graduated in psychology at the University of Hamburg in 1986. He joined the Department of Aviation and Aerospace Psychology at the Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Hamburg as a research scientist in the same year. His main research and working activities concerned the development and application of test methods for the selection of pilots and air traffic controllers. In 1990 he became involved in a three-year international research program addressing engineering and bio-medical problems related to the development of safe diving procedures to extreme depths (> 450 meters of seawater) that was conducted at a large-scale diving chamber facility near Hamburg. He finished his PhD in 1994 on the development of a single-subject methodology for monitoring the psychological fitness of the divers involved in this program. From 2000 until 2002 he worked at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC as a visiting research fellow where he completed a research project on human-automation interaction issues. Since 2002 until now he has been working at the Human Factors Department of the DLR-Institute of Flight Guidance in Braunschweig and has been involved in various cognitive ergonomics projects dealing with future air traffic management concepts.