Dr. Bernhard Frick is a senior researcher at the ILL. He has received his diploma in Physics at the University Tübingen, Germany, carried out his PhD at the Research Centre Jülich and received his Ph.D. degree in 1984 from the University Cologne, D. In 1986 he joint the ILL, Grenoble, France, as an instrument responsible on the TOF-instrument IN6, then the backscattering spectrometer IN10. Since 1991 he was in charge of the development of the backscattering spectrometer IN16 and its science community, with an intermediate sabbatical stay in 1993-1994 at the NIST, Gaithersburg, USA. More recently he developed the neutron backscattering spectrometer IN16B at ILL, a very versatile new reactor backscattering spectrometer which went into operation in 2014 and which holds several world records. His research activities are focused on the dynamics of the glass transition, soft matter and disordered systems, on the dynamics of molecules in confined geometries and on the dynamics of energy materials. Dr. Frick has served on review boards for different neutron scattering facilities worldwide.