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Prof. Dr Marco Cantonati: environmental botanist and inland-waters’ ecologist specialized on the taxonomy and ecology of benthic algae (focus on diatoms and cyanoprokaryotes). M.Scs in Biology and Natural Sciences Univ. Pavia and PhD in ecology of inland waters Univ. Innsbruck. Formerly MUSE Section Head (Limnology/Phycology), since 2022 prof of systematic botany at the University of Bologna. Associate Researcher at Drexel University (PA, USA). 139 articles in ISI journals. He has described genera and species of algae and cyanobacteria new to science; author of one of the most widely used diatom identification texts internationally. Central European Venia docendi (PD Prof) in Limnology (Univ. Innsbruck), ASN as Full Prof. (Botany, Ecology), Prof 'Biol. Photoautotrophic Org.’ Univ Trento 2014. 37 projects, contracts, consultancies. Editor-in-Chief of the new (2026) Springer journal Current Water Management Reports, Assoc EdAssoc Ed/EBM 4 intern. journals (including Wetlands), reviewer for >100 journals, Guest Ed of 9 spec. volumes for 7 journals (including STOTEN and ECOLIND). Thesis supervisor/co-sup.: 11 PhDs, 27 Masters, and 18 Bachelors.
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