مؤلف: Konrad Oexle

Martin Grambow studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is currently head of the Water Management Department in the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection (Bay St MUV). His responsibilities include water laws and regulations, water monitoring and development, water supply and flood prevention. He represents Bavaria on national and international expert committees and heads the Danube River Basin Commission. Within the framework of a project entitled Technology Transfer Water (TTW), Professor Grambow encourages the use of German know-how in the field of water technology and water management in international projects around the world. He is Honorary Professor at TUM and teaches International Water Policy and Law, with a particular focus on the consequences of the Anthropocene for sustainable environmental policy.   Michael Molls was the chairholder and the director of the clinic for radiotherapy andradiation oncology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) from 1992 to 2014. Further activities include his serving as a member of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board at the TUM hospital “Rechts der Isar” and head of the Tumour Centre (Tumorzentrum) München of both Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) and TUM. He was particularly committed to process, result and structure quality of interdisciplinary oncology. He currently serves as the scientific director of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study, where he fosters the integration of medical research and sustainability.   Konrad Oexle heads the Neurogenetic Systems Analysis group at the Institute of Neurogenomics, Helmholtz Center Munich, the German Research Center for Environmental Health. He also is associated with the Institute of Human Genetics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) where he is Adjunct Professor (apl). After medical school at the University of Freiburg, Germany, anda postdoc at the University of California, US, he started his career in clinical medicine as pediatrician and human geneticist. He then turned to science where his biomedical research interests address genetic, epigenetic and environmental causes of sleep disorders and neurological diseases. Peter A. Wilderer received in 1965 the degree of Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) in sanitary engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, and in 1976, he qualified for professorship (habilitation) in field of bio-process engineering. He has been professor at the University of Karlsruhe, the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany, and he served as visiting professor at the University of California at Davis, USA, the Montana State University, USA, and the University of Queensland, Australia. In 2003, he received from the hands of the Swedish King the Stockholm Water Prize. In 2007, the Technical University of Munich honoured him with the title “Professor emeritus of excellence”. In 2002, he founded the Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, today known as International Expert Group for the Preservation of the Earth System (IESP), an open network of scientists and researchers, entrepreneurs, politicians and members of governmental and non-governmental institutions.