Gregory Egger is currently a professor extraordinarius for landscape ecology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since 2017, he has also been the owner and managing director of Naturraumplanung Egger e.U., as well as a scientist in the KIT Department of Wetland Ecology. His research focuses on vegetation ecology and modeling of river and floodplain ecosystems; management of water bodies; vegetation and management of alpine pasture ecosystems; and the management of protected areas and nature conservation.