The organisational structure of HR21, including stringent guidelines, procedures and clear responsibilities, guarantees the success of HR21. All activities of the different committees are supported by the DocService, ensuring professional assistance and execution.

Management Board 

The management board (MB) functions as the overall management unit of HR21, leading the overall academic, administrative and financial management and has the full responsibility for the achievement of the defined quality standards in both teaching and research. The management board develops strategies to allocate external funding and is in charge of organising the implementation of the strategies and its measures. The management board serves as a strategic body with the aim to identify scientific topics relevant for future developments of HR21. It is responsible for approval of selected HR21 PhD students and all reporting activities. The MB has seven members, namely the HR21 speaker and deputy speaker, the student speaker and the student deputy speaker and three additional faculty members. 

Faculty Members: 

Hauer Christoph 
Hein Thomas 
Schmid Martin 
Stöglehner Gernot 
Stumpp Christine 

Student Members: 

Anna-Lisa Dittrich
Tóth Márton

 

Curriculum committee 

The curriculum committee has advisory functions to the management board in all aspects of the curriculum and is in charge of the academic quality assurance, the curriculum development and adaptations of the curriculum. The curriculum committee consists of 4 members, two members of the faculty and two members of the student assembly. The educational program is evaluated at a regular basis via online evaluation forms to monitor the achievement of targeted learning outcomes and several other key-performance indicators. In addition, regular student feed-back workshops are held to guarantee the concerted input of student views. 

Faculty Members: 

Schmid Erwin 
Schmutz Stefan 

Student Members: 

Kaminsky Eva
Junger Lena

Ombuds Committee 

The Ombuds committee consists of four members: one male and one female faculty member and one male and female student member. In case of serious problems and conflicts between students and supervisors (all aspects of mobbing, gender- and minority-related offences and discriminations, or suspicion of violating the rules of Good Scientific Practice) each member has the right to bring the problem to the notice of the committee, which is recommending further procedures/action-points to the management board. 

Faculty Members: 

Ertl Thomas 
Gabriele Weigelhofer

Student Members: 

Kearney Katharina
Auhser Alexander 

Scientific advisory board 

M. Teresa FERREIRA is Professor at the Department of Natural Resources, Environment and Landscape at the University of Lisbon. She has a biologist background, a post-graduation on Freshwater Ecology, and a PhD and Habilitation in Forest Engineering and Natural Resources Management. She works on freshwater ecology and management, with special interest on ecological quality, fish community ecology, fish habitat requirements and riparian ecology. She is responsible for a MSc in Management and Conservation of Natural Resources and a PhD on River Restoration and Management. Teresa developed research activities in 56 national and European competitive projects, and was involved in an identical number of applied studies (ecohydraulics, ecological monitoring, fisheries, river restoration). She published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and presented over 400 oral communications. Teresa acts as administration advisor for water management affairs and is a member of the National Water Council and of the Science Council for the Portuguese National Science Foundation.
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Courtney FLINT is a Professor of Natural Resource Sociology at Utah State University. Her research focuses on the human and community dimensions of natural systems and the role of experience, attitudes, and local action in landscape change and resource management. She takes a mixed methods approach, combining in-depth qualitative methods with survey research and analysis of secondary data to integrate various layers and scales of information. She has extensive interdisciplinary experience, with primary focus on regional socio-ecological river systems in the US. She serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the US Environmental Protection Agency. 

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Gregory PASTERNACK is a Professor at University of California, Davis in Hydrology, Ecology, & Computer Science programs. He seeks to steward nature & promote healthy multicultural communities by understanding rivers, their biota, and human society as an intertwined system. This involves an interdisciplinary combination of (i) basic science to understand how the naturally complex landscape works, (ii) methods & software development to design more natural, functional rivers, and (iii) tech transfer to get concepts, methods, and results into the hands of practitioners, regulators, & stakeholders. Research is balanced with inclusive teaching, equitable service, leadership, and diverse outreach. 
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Birgit VOGEL is the Executive Secretary of the ICPDR (International Comimission for the Protection of the Danube River - icpdr.org). The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) works to ensure the sustainable and equitable use of waters in the Danube River Basin. The work of the ICPDR is based on the Danube River Protection Convention (DRPC), the major legal instrument for cooperation and transboundary water management in the Danube River Basin. The ICPDR addresses the entire Danube River basin, comprising 19 countries, making it the most international river basin in the world. Including more than 300 tributaries and connected groundwater resources too, this makes the ICPDR one of the largest and most active international river basin management commissions in the world.
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