Studies in sociology, economics, and social and economic history at the University of Zurich. Starting in 1995, he was involved in the establishment of the Swiss Science and Technology Research and, in the context of longer visiting stays at the Ecole des Mines de Paris and the FU Berlin, specialized in science policy. From 2000, he has been involved in various activities related to science policy. He worked as a  lecturer at EPFL Lausanne, where he taught the postgraduate course "Higher Education and Research Policy". He was scientific advisor and head of the secretariat of the Swiss Science Council SSC from 2004 to 2009. In this capacity, he was responsible for monitoring the new Higher Education Act HFKG and the SSC-affiliated Centers for Science and Technology Studies CEST, and for Technology Assessment (TA-SWISS). Bernhard Nievergelt obtained his Executive Master of Public Administration MPA from the University of Bern in 2011. From 2011 to 2014, he was a research associate in the Program for Science Studies at the University of Basel, and was responsible for the coordination and adaptation of the National Science Foundation project "Universitäres Wissenschaftsmanagement: Die Mikroebene der 'Neuen Governance der Wissenschaft'". He has been a lecturer in the CAS Research Management at Uni Bern since 2013  and in the MBA Academic Management at Uni Basel since 2014, where he teaches an introduction to Swiss research and higher education policy.