Prof. Dr. Karsten Rinke
Head of the Department
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Department of Lake Research
Brückstr. 3a
39114 Magdeburg, Germany
Phone: +49 341 6025 4449
Research Interests
- Eutrophication, ecosystem dynamics and nutrient cycling in lakes and reservoirs
- Coupled hydrodynamic-ecological simulation of lake ecosystems, water quality models, predictability of lentic ecosystems
- Global change effects on aquatic ecosystems and water quality
- Management of lake ecosystems, reservoir operation, and climate adaptation
- Water quality monitoring of lakes and reservoirs
- Catchment-lake interactions
Curriculum Vitae
since May 2010
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Lake Research (Head of the Department)
2008 – 2010
Research Associate at the Limnological Institute at the University of Konstanz
2005 – 2008
Postdoc at the Limnological Institute at the University of Konstanz
2001-2005
PhD student at the Institute of Hydrobiology at Dresden University of Technology
1995-2001
Study of Biology (Limnology, Microbiology, Environmental Engineering) at University of Göttingen and Dresden University of Technology
1975
I was born in Göttingen, Germany
Research stays abroad in Switzerland (1999), The Netherlands (2003 & 2009), Israel (2006) and Turkey (2007)