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Dr. Klement TOCKNER Professor of Aquatic Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin; President, Austrian Science Fund, Vienna

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1993 PhD, Zoology & Botany, University of Vienna
1993-1994 Freshwater consultant, Rwanda and Uganda, Africa
1994-1996 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Vienna
1996-1999 Assistant professor, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
1999-2007 Group leader, EAWAG, Dübendorf
2002 JSPS Fellow, Sendai, Japan
2004-2005 Guest scientist, Cary-Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook
since 2005 Titulary Professorship, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
2007-2016 Director, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin
since 2007 Professor, Aquatic Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin
since 2016 President, FWF Austrian Science Fund, Vienna
since 2017 Chairman, OeAWI - Austrian Agency for Research Integrity, Vienna

Mitgliedschaften

2004-2015 Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editor (2016-2018) of the Journal Aquatic Sciences
since 2012 Elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
since 2015 National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan (NIES), Member of Int. Advisory Board
since 2015 Elected member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) since 2016 ZALF Leibniz-Institute of Agricultural Landscape Research, Member of Executive Board
since 2019 Biology Centre, CAS, Member of Int. Advisory Board

Publikationen

In total more than 300 publications, more than 150 in ISI journals
h-Index (Google Scholar): 71; Total number of citations: 19.900
Book: "Rivers of Europe"; four edited Special Issues in journals

Auszeichnungen

Liepolt-Prize for Danube Research, 1999
Most cited freshwater ecologist in D,A,CH, 2002 (Laborjournal)
Titulary Professorship at ETH Zurich
Elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2012
Elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2015
Prizes for highly cited papers (e.g. Wiley-Publisher Prize)