Portrait von Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Emil Dister

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Emil Dister

  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

    Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
    Bereich WWF-Auen-Institut
    Josefstraße 1
    D-76437 Rastatt

Emil Dister

Research on floodplains in Europe, Southamerica, Westafrica of different rivers like Rhine, Loire, Elbe, Oder, Rio Magdalena, March and Dona.
Gruppe Wasser

Topics

  • floodplain ecology
  • restoration of rivers and their floodplains
  • ecologically oriented flood protection

Curriculum vitae

1985 - 2014
Director of the WWF-Auen-Institut, from April 2004 part of KIT, Institute for Floodplains Ecology
1980 - 1985
Academical staff at the Departemenr of Biogeography at Saarland University in Saarbrücken
1979 - 1980
Freelancer at Gesellschaft für Landeskultur (GfL) in Bad Homburg
1975 - 1980
Scientist and freelancer at Hessische Gesellschaft für Ornithologie und Naturschutz (HGON) e.V. in Frankfurt/M, PhD in 1980 with a topic concerning floodplain ecology at Göttingen University, degree in biology (geobotany) and geography in Mainz and Göttingen

Furthermore: project evaluations for the GTZ (1990, 1982, 1981), project search in Gambia for the foundation "Walderhaltung in Afrika e.V."

Teaching

Lectureships at Universities: Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken, Marburg, Basel.

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