Peter Fiener is a full professor at the Institute of Geography and head of the working group since 2013. From 2011 to 2012 he was full professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He did his Habilitation at the Institute of Geography at the University Cologne, focusing on pattern and processes interactions affecting lateral water and matter transport in agricultural landscapes. His PhD was carried out in the framework of an interdisciplinary project focused on sustainable agriculture, where he was measuring and modelling surface runoff and soil erosion.

since 2021    Coordinator of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network SOPLAS

since 2016    Dean of Students Department of Geography, Fakulty of Applied Computer Sciences, University of Augsburg

since 2013    Professor for Water and Soil Resource Research at the Department of Geography, University of Augsburg

2011‐2012    Professor at the Indo‐German Centre for Sustainabilty; Indian Institute of Technology Madras; IGCS Spokesman

2004‐2013    Senior Scientist at the Department of Geographie; University Cologne

2010             Habilitation "Effects of pattern and process interactions upon lateral water and matter fluxes in agricultural landscapes"

2005             PostDoc at K.U. Leuven, Belgien, Laboratory of Geomorphology, Prof. Dr. Gerard Govers

2003‐2004    PostDoc at Bundeswehr Hochschule München am Institut für Wasserwesen Fachbereich Wasserwirtschaft und Ressourcenschutz

2000‐2003    PhD Student Technischen Universität München

2003             PhD Thesis "Concept and effects of a multi‐purpose grassedwaterway ‐ long‐term measuring and mathematical modeling

                     of runoff reduction and sediment trapping"; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Auerswald

1998             Master in Geography at Universität Augsburg and Ludwig‐Maximilian‐Universität München (LMU)

    For teaching activities see Digicampus