Professor Beretz is a graduate in pharmacy and holds a PhD in pharmacology. He is professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg.
He was Vice-President in charge of technology transfe), and then President of the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg (2007-2008).
He was elected in 2009 as the first president of the University of Strasbourg, born from the innovative merger of the three universities located in Strasbourg and re-elected in 2012 for a second 4-year term.
He was, from 2014 to 2016, the Chair of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) after being a member of its Board of Directors. He has been also in 2012 president of Eucor, the European campus, the alliance of the universities of the Rhine valley: Basel, Freiburg Karlsruhe, Haute-Alsace and Strasbourg.
He was Director General for Research and Innovation (2016-2018), at the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. He was from 2018 to 2020 the special envoy of the French Prime Minister with a mission on the European universities initiative. He is the President of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), since June 2021. He is also president of Ksilink, a Franco-German initiative working on phenotypic patient-based drug discovery, and of the IEEPI (European Institute for Enterprise and Intellectual Property) which develops training on strategic and managerial aspects of intellectual property.
He is member of the EUGLOH advisory committee since 2020.
