Bernd J. Kröger (German: [ˈbɛʁnt jɔt ˈkʁøːɡɐ]; born 1959 in Osnabrück, Germany) is a German phonetician and professor at RWTH Aachen University.
He is known for his contributions in the field of neurocomputational speech processing, in particular the ACT model.
[3] In 1987 Kröger started his academic career as research associate at Cologne's Department of Phonetics, which was then headed by Georg Heike.
Since 2001 he has been professor and senior researcher at the Department of Phoniatrics, Pedaudiology and Communication Disorders, Medical School, RWTH Aachen University.
He has been guest professor at Tianjin University, China since 2011.