Professor Bernard Wallner is professor of comparative anthropology at the Department of Behavioural Biology and adjunct professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria. His research is concentrated on individual stress reactions effected by environmental and social stressors. Physiological stress is analyzed on behavioral, physiological respectively endocrine and molecular biological levels in humans, monkeys, and rodents. Bernard is a founding member of the Austrian Research Center of Primatology and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He teaches courses in primatology and comparative anthropology and earned his PhD in Behavioral Endocrinology.

Discussions on quality management in higher education lack mostly a significant variable, namely to "educate students to be creative or seek for innovation". One crucial explanation could be researcher per se think they represent a community of highly creative people. This might be true because creativity can be seen as a fundamental natural feature of universities. However, Thomson Reuters reveals that the richest countries have the most innovative universities. Evolutionary biology shows that creative behavior of homo represents a key feature developed under selective processes. Therefore, higher education has the obligation to nurture creativity in the education of academics.