His outstanding re­search results appear regularly in re­nowned scientific journals. Pro­fes­sor Bayer has a large network of in­ter­na­tio­nal contacts and – as spokesperson of the first German-Russian Collaborative Research Center of the German Research Foun­da­tion – especially cultivates the partnership with St. Pe­ters­burg. He has been honored several times for his excellent re­search work, among others as Fellow of the American Physical Society (2012) and Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2017).