IAEA Staff : Management
Mr. Werner Burkart, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
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Mr. Werner Burkart has worked as IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications since 2000. Prior to joining the Agency, he was Head of the Department of Radiation Hygiene in the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection.
From 1973 to 1975 Mr. Burkart headed the Biology and Medicine Division of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He then joined the Swiss Institute for Reactor Research at Würenlingen, where he held different assignments in radiation biology, radioecology and radiation protection.
Mr. Burkart became Head of the Radiation Hygiene Division at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland in 1988. Today he is Professor for Radiation Biology at the Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.
Mr. Burkart holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Masters of Science in Environmental Health (radiological health and internal dosimetry).
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