BILLERICA, Mass., March 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Bruker today
announced the appointment of Dr. Burkhard
Prause, the President of the Bruker Energy & Supercon
Technologies (BEST) segment, as an executive officer of Bruker
Corporation. Dr. Prause has a successful track record of
leading BEST through a significant expansion of its business in the
last decade, with a focus on customer needs, productivity, quality
and innovation.
Dr. Prause has been with Bruker for over 15 years, most recently
as President of BEST since April
2008. He was a director of BEST from April 2012 to February
2013. He has also served in leadership roles at various BEST
subsidiaries, including as a director of Hydrostatic Extrusions
Ltd. since April 2013, and as a
Managing Director of Bruker EAS GmbH and Bruker HTS GmbH since
January 2005, RI Research Instruments
GmbH since December 2008, and Bruker
ASC GmbH since March 2009. Dr.
Prause began his career at Bruker with the company's BioSpin
preclinical MRI business in 2002. Prior to joining Bruker,
Dr. Prause was a senior staff scientist at the Max-Planck Institute
in Tuebingen, Germany. Dr.
Prause holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Frank Laukien, President and CEO
of Bruker Corporation, stated: "I am pleased to welcome Burkhard to
Bruker's executive leadership team. His outstanding
contributions to the reshaping and profitable growth of our BEST
segment over the past decade make him an excellent addition to
Bruker's senior management and leadership team."
Dr. Prause commented: "The BEST business has seen extraordinary
growth in serving our MRI and 'Big Science' markets in recent
years, both organically and through the successful acquisition of
Bruker OST. Our development of high-performance
superconducting technologies is a major innovation force within
Bruker, and a strategic requirement for NMR. This appointment
as executive officer, and the strong integration in Bruker, gives
BEST additional momentum to drive profitable growth and to advance
key enabling technologies for Bruker, for the major MRI companies
as well as for the high-energy physics community."
About Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR)
For more than 55 years, Bruker has enabled scientists to make
breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve
the quality of human life. Bruker's high-performance scientific
instruments and high-value analytical and diagnostic solutions
enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular,
cellular and microscopic levels. In close cooperation with our
customers, Bruker is enabling innovation, improved productivity and
customer success in life science molecular research, in applied and
pharma applications, in microscopy and nanoanalysis, and in
industrial applications, as well as in cell biology, preclinical
imaging, phenomics and proteomics research, microbiology and
molecular pathology research. For more information, please visit:
www.bruker.com.
Investor Contact:
Miroslava Minkova
Head of Investor Relations
Bruker Corporation
T: +1 (978) 663 – 3660, ext. 1479
E: miroslava.minkova@bruker.com
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