Professor Robert Sitzenfrei received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University Innsbruck in 2010. As a researcher at the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in Innsbruck, he led and co-led basic and applied research projects in all areas of urban water management, publishing more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, books and scientific conferences. He continuously serves as a scientific committee member at different international conferences, is an associate editor for the Journal ‘Water Science and Technology’ and is/was a guest editor of Special Issues in different journals. In 2018, he was appointed full professor of urban water management at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests are in integrated and interdisciplinary approaches, resilience, urban water networks, complex network analysis, transition modeling, smart (water) cities, water and energy, sustainability.