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

karsten.rinke@ufz.de

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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)


Publications