Prof. Dr. Eric von Elert
- since 2023: Deputy Managing Director of the Institute for Zoology
- 2022-2023: Managing Director of the Institute for Zoology
- 2019-2021: Member of the Inner Faculty of the University of Cologne's Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
- 2017-2018: Vice-Director of the Department of Biology of the University of Cologne's Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
- 2016-2017: Director of the Department of Biology of the University of Cologne's Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
- 2015-2017: Member of the Inner Faculty of the University of Cologne's Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
- 2011-2017: chairman of 'Prüfungsausschuss Bachelor of Arts'
- 2008-2009: Managing Director of the Institute for Zoology
- since 2006: Chair of Aquatic Chemical Ecology at the Institute for Zoology at the University of Cologne.
- 2001: Habilitation in Limnolgy and Zoology.
- 1996-2006: Research Associate (C1) in the Limnological Institute at the University of Konstanz in the group of Prof. Dr. Karl-Otto Rothhaupt.
- 1994-1996: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of of Physiological Ecology with Prof. Dr. W. Lampert at the Max-Planck Institute for Limnology, Plön, Germany.
- 1994: Dissertation (PhD/Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Tübingen.
- 1989-1994: Graduate student in the Department of Physiological Ecology with PD Dr. Friedrich Jüttner at the Max-Planck Institute for Limnology, Plön, Germany.
- 1987-1988: Diploma thesis in the Institute of Biochemistry of Plants with Prof. Dr. K. Wegmann, University of Tübingen.
- 1981-1988: Studies of Biochemistry (Diploma) at the University of Tübingen