Dr. Günter Bachlechner designated Head of Research at Bayer Technology Services
Dr. Helmut Mothes to retire
Bayer Technology Services
“Dr. Bachlechner has profound experience in the areas of development and technology, and possesses special qualities that are key to the focused expansion of portfolio and thus of our future business,” said BTS Managing Director Dr. Dirk Van Meirvenne.
Bachlechner was born in Villach, Austria, in 1956, and studied chemistry at the University of Vienna, where he also obtained his doctorate and served as Assistant. He began his Bayer career in 1987 with Bayer Crop Protection, Environmental Research, in Monheim (Germany). He joined Portfolio Management as a project manager in 1994; in 2000 he was appointed Operating Officer and Head of the Development Division at Nihon Bayer Agrochem in Tokyo, Japan. He then worked in Industrial Operations at Bayer CropScience before returning to Research, where he has been responsible for Research Product Technology since 2004 and Research Technologies since 2011.
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