Stephan Glatzel obtained his doctorate 1999 in Soil Science at Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany. After assignments as Postdoc at McGill University, Montréal, Canada and the University of Göttingen, Germany, he became Professor of Landscape Ecology and Land Evaluation at the University of Rostock, Germany. Since 2014, he is Professor of Geoecology at the University of Vienna, Austria. In 2016, he became member of Austria’s Ramsar National Focal Point and joined STRP activities, contributing to the Ramsar Policy Brief #5. Since his doctorate, the focus of Stephan’s work has been organic matter and greenhouse gas turnover in wetlands, especially peatlands. From 2013 to 2023, Stephan was an editor of Mires and Peat and became Editor in Chief of Catena in 2023. Besides his >130 scientific publications, Stephan has been active at the science-policy interface as an author of Austria’s Mire Strategy 2030+ and the 2023 update of Austria’s Floodplain Strategy.
