Jurgen Breuste, Professor at the University Hildesheim, is the founding President of the International Society of Urban Ecology (SURE) and member of several scientific boards. He studied geography at Martin-Luther University Halle/Wittenberg from where he got his PhD 1982 and his second graduation 1986. He was universitiy lecturer at theGerman universities in Halle, Greifswald and Leipzig, and was head of department Urban Landscape at the Environmental Research Centre Leipzid/Halle. Until 2021, he was been a professor of urban Ecology at the Uhiversity of Salzburg, Austria, an honorary professor of Capital Normal University and East China Normal University. He has worked as project leader in a number of research projects on urban ecology and urban development at EU level and in other internatioal cooperation. He has published several monographs in the fields of urban ecosystem research, nature conservation and urban development modeling, and serves on the editorial board of journals such as Ecological Indicators and Landscape Ecology.