Max Maurer is department head of the department Urban Water Management (SWW). His current field of interest is the engineering potential of innovative approaches to urban water management and innovative management and planning procedures in water infrastructure. In the information bulletin of the ETH Board the Board states: “With Max Maurer’s appointment, the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering gains a scientist with a reputation as a driving force in inter- and trans disciplinary research in the internationally relevant topic of urban water management.”