Biography

Klement Tockner is Director General of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and professor for Ecosystem Sciences at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (since 2021). He was President of the Austrian Science Fund – FWF (2016-2020), full professor for Aquatic Ecology at the Free University Berlin (2007-2020) and director of the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin (2007-2016). He received a PhD from the University of Vienna (1993) and a Titulary Professor¬ship at ETH Zürich (2005). He is an internationally leading freshwater scientist, in particular in the research domains biodiversity, ecosystem science and environmental management. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Aquatic Sciences (2005-2014) and is Subject Editor of the journal Ecosystems. He has published about 250 scientific papers including more than 180 ISI papers. In 2009, he edited a comprehensive book on European Rivers (Rivers of Europe, Elsevier; 2nd Edition in 2021). Klement Tockner has successfully managed large inter- and transdisciplinary projects such as the EC-funded project BioFresh. He is member of several scientific committees and advisory boards including the National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan (NIES) and the Biology Centre (CZ). He is elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz.