Karl Tilman Rost received his PhD at Goettingen University. He worked as a professor in physical geography at Freie Universität Berlin from 2011- 2016. He was a Senior Researcher and Project Coordinator at the Institute for Geographical Sciences of Freie Universität Berlin in 2009-2010. Dr. Karl Tilman Rost has been a Co-Project leader resp. leader DAAD-Project " MA IWRM at Kazakh-German University" since 2011 and a Senior Lecturer and adjunct professor in physical geography at the Institute for Geographical Sciences of Freie Universität Berlin since 2017. He is responsible for training in Integrated Watershed Management at Kazakh-German University.