Past Projects with External Funding

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Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Name	Jörg Arthur Freyhof
Date of birth	4 November 1964
Nationality	German
	married, two children

September 2016 – May 2019

Project Coordinator: “Interdisziplinärer Forschungsverbund Urbane Gewässer“ (IGB): http://urban-waters.org/

Past Positions

March 2014 – August 2016

Executive Director of the Group of Earth Observations - Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON, www.geobon.org) at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) www.idiv.de/biodivesity-conservation

April 2011 – February 2014
Coordinator of the Fish Work Package in the SAW project Freshwater Diversity Identification for Europe (FREDIE): www.fredie.eu

March 2010 – February 2014
Working coordinator of the EU project BioFresh: www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu

June 2000 – April 2014
Research scientist at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin

Diversity, systematics and conservation of Eurasian freshwater fishes
Ecology and natural history of postglacial evolving fish species pairs
Ecology of fish communities in large rivers

June 1993 - Mai 2000
Research assistant at the Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn
Collection management assistant and head of research projects:

Diversity and perspectives of sustainable use of the fish fauna in the Central Mountain massifs of Vietnam
Long-term fluctuations of fish-community structures in the River Rhine basin

Participating in research project:

Freshwater fishes of the Rumpi hills, Western Cameroon (GTZ)

June 1993 - September 1997
doctorate in Zoology at the University of Bonn

Habitat structures and fish communities in the Rivers Sieg, Germany

February 1993
Diploma in Biology (Zoology) at the University of Bonn

Habitat choice of 0+cyprinids in the Rivers Sieg, Germany

Ongoing Grants

2018-2022: "International training at the Science-Policy Interface for Researchers in Europe, for Nature" Horizon 2020 ITN-ETN MCSA project.
2015-2019: “Improving Future Ecosystem Benefits through Earth Observations (ECOPOTENTIAL)” Lead of WP2: “Conceptual Scientific Framework”. ECOPOTENTIAL is a large scale project funded by the European Union under H2020 (15.000.000 Euro) http://www.ecopotential-project.eu/
2015-2017: "GLOBal Infrastructures for Supporting Biodiversity research (GlobisB)" EU H2020 INFRASUPP-6-2014. (1.000.000 Euro) http://www.globis-b.eu/

Symposia Organized

“GEO BON Open Science Conference and All-Hands-Meeting” 4-8^th July 2016, Leipzig, Germany (Organizer).
“Evolutionary Ecology of Fishes” 23-25 November 2009, Berlin, Germany (Organizer).
“12th International Congress of European Ichthyologists (ECI XII)” 9-13 September 2007, in Dubrovnik, Croatia (Convenor of the Symposia. Conservation of freshwater fish).
“11th International Congress of European Ichthyologists (ECI XI)” 6-10 September 2004, Tallinn, Estonia (Convenor of the Symposia 7.: To be or not to be: freshwater fish conservation)
“9th International Congress of European Ichthyologists (CEI)” 24-30 August 1997, Trieste, Italy (Member of International Steering Committee and Symposia Convenor, Part: Adaptive Ecology)
“Second International Symposium on the Biology of the Genus Chondrostoma Agassiz, 1835” 10-13 October 1996, Bonn, Germany (Organizer).
“Freshwater Fishes of Tropical Ecosystems: Threats and Protection” 9-12 March 1995, Bonn, Germany (Organizer).

Past Projects with External Funding

2010-2014: “Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Status, Trends, Pressures, and Conservation Priorities (BioFresh)” Lead of WP5: “Climate Change Impact on Freshwater Biodiversity” and working coordination. BioFresh is a large scale integration project funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme, Theme 6: Environment including Climate Change, www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu (6.500.000 Euro)
2011-2014: Freshwater Diversity Identification for Europe (FREDIE) (Barcoding project in cooperation with “Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn” and “Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin”) (SAW Project 2011, Leibniz Gemeinschaft), www.fredie.eu (827.840 Euro)
2004-2009: The impact of climate variability on recruitment, life history, and physiology of sympatric pairs of ciscoes (Teleostei: Coregonus spp.) in lakes (DFG Me 1686/5-1, AQUASHIFT). (170.000 Euro)
2004-2007: Stocking history and the identification of native populations of Coregonus albula in northern Germany (Umweltministerium Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; Umweltministerium Schleswig-Holstein). (85.000 Euro)
2002-2003: Diversity and the threads of endemic freshwater fishes of Ukraine (Russian Science Foundation, YugNIRO (Berdyansk) und NHMU (Kiew). (2.000 Euro)
2001: Diversity and the threads of endemic freshwater fishes in the Western Caucasus and River Kuban (Russian Science Foundation). (2.000 Euro)
1998-1999: Einfluss der Schiffswellen auf die Verteilung und Häufigkeit von Jungfischen im Rhein (Umweltministerium Rheinland-Pfalz). (60.000 Euro)
1998-2000: Diversity and perspectives of sustainable use of the fish fauna in the Central Mountain massifs of Vietnam. (Volkswagenstiftung). (45.000 Euro)
1996: Ichthyological study of western Cameroon focused on the possibility of ornamental fish exports as sustainable use of rainforest products in nature reserves (GTZ). (2.000 Euro)
1993-1997: Strukturierende Faktoren für die Fischgemeinschaft der Sieg (Umweltministerium Nordrhein-Westfalen). (150.000 Euro)