Blöschl was an assistant professor at the Vienna University of Technology. During that time, he was a research fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne, and a research fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. In 1997, he was appointed associate professor of Hydrology and in 2007 full professor and chair of Hydrology and Water Resources Management at the Vienna University of Technology. Since 2012 he has been the Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at Vienna University of Technology. In 2014 he was appointed advisory professor at Hohai University, Nanjing, and a distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2017. Blöschl chairs the Scientific Advisory Council of the German Federal Institute of Hydrology and has been chair of the Predictions in Ungauged Basins initiative of the International Association Hydrological Sciences whose Synthesis book he has edited. From 2013-2015 he was president of the European Geosciences Union. For 2017-2021 he is the president of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. He was editor of the American Geophysical Union’s journal Water Resources Research. He has been a member of the Progetto Firenze 2016 International Advisory Board that provided strategic advice on flood-proofing for the city of Florence after the devastating 1966 flood. His main research interests are in hydrology and water resource management and in particular understanding and predicting floods. An ERC Advanced Grant on ‘Deciphering River Flood Change’ was awarded to him. Using this grant, he demonstrated the role of climate change in increasing flood risk at the European scale which he published in Science Magazine 2017 and in Nature 2019. He is currently leading the HORA 3.0 project where flood risk is mapped for of Austrian streams. As the director of the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems, which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund, Blöschl is coordinating interdisciplinary water research. He is also directing the Hydrology Open Air Laboratory where detailed field observations are performed to understand water and matter fluxes in the landscape. Throughout his career, Günter Blöschl has been a strong advocate of bridging the gap between understanding fundamental processes and the practice of water resources management. He has published about 300 peer-reviewed papers and several books.
