Prof Dr-Ing Joerg Baumeister is a researcher, consultant, inventor, practitioner, and educator for more than 25 years throughout Europe, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, China, and Australia.

He is the Founder and Director of the SeaCities Lab at the Cities Research Institute which develops and implements water-adapted urban solutions and floating structures for climate change (aquatecture) and Full Professor at Griffith University, Australia. His latest successful CRC Blue Economy grant application for the development of a patented off-shore aquaculture structure has attracted $2 Mio for phase 1 (conceptional development).

His Academic Role includes teaching students the skills of tomorrow like creative, critical, complex, and ecological thinking and previous appointments as Chair, Head of Discipline, Head of Department and Dean.