- Berend Bohlmann, born 31.07.61, married, 2 children
- Until 1982: during school casual worker in the harbours of Bremen and Bremerhaven, at a diving and blast company, ship cleaning...
- 1980 to 1982 shipbuilder apprenticeship at “Weser” AG Seebeckwerft, Bremerhaven
- 1984 to 1990 shipbuilding studies at the University of Hamburg, Institute for Shipbuilding
- 1995 PhD at the University of Hamburg, thesis: vibration resistance of welded pipeline branches
- 1982 to 1984 Shipbuilder at the “Weser” AG Seebeckwerft in Bremerhaven
- 1990 to 1994 Scientist at the University of Hamburg. Focus on structural design and analysis of ships.
- 1995 to 2007 at Flensburg Shipyard. Basic Design
• responsible for structural analysis in ship design and related research and development
• from 2001 manager of the dept., responsible for advanced engineering in ship design and related research and development in structural analysis, hydrodynamics, mechanical engineering, software development - 2007 to 2021 Associate professor for steel structural engineering at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense
- Since 10/2021 Adjunct Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering – Maritime Technology at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense
- Since 9/2008 Professor for ship structural design and engineering at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Kiel