Dr. Frank Masese has over 15 years of research experience on freshwater ecosystems in East Africa. Straddling the terrestrial-aquatic domain, his research seeks to understand how landscape variables and human activities shape aquatic ecosystem structure and functioning with a focus on nutrient cycling, organic matter processing, community composition, and trophic dynamics. His research profile also includes development of biological indices for assessing and monitoring the ecological condition of streams and rivers. Currently, he is leading a team of scientists to develop a national biotic index for monitoring streams and rivers in Kenya. He has also been involved in several projects aimed at sustainable water resources management, capacity building and strengthening postgraduate training in institutions of higher learning in Eastern Africa. In addition to teaching, he mentors and supervises undergraduate (bachelors) and postgraduate students (MSc and PhD) and organizes short courses for training students in field techniques, and data management and analysis.

Past and current positions:

1. Director, Industrial Linkages, Partnerships & Collaborations, University of Eldoret, Kenya.
2. Dean of School – School of Natural Resources Management, University of Eldoret.
3. Head of Department – Department of Fisheries & Aquatic Science, University of Eldoret.
4. Senior Lecturer – Department of Fisheries & Aquatic Science, University of Eldoret, Kenya.
5. Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow – Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology & Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany.
6. Guest Editor – Special Issue on “Exploring temporal and spatial variability in land-water connections across broad geographical regions” with Dr. Amanda Subalusky, University of Florida. Freshwater Biology.
7. Guest Editor – Special Issue on “Impacts of global change on freshwater and coastal ecosystems in the Global South” with Prof. Björn Gücker and Prof. Davi Gasparini Fernandes Cunha. International Review of Hydrobiology.
8. Guest Editor – Special Issue on “Stream Ecology and Environmental Gradients” with Prof. Luiz Ubiratan Hepp and Prof. Franco Teixeira de Mello. Hydrobiologi.
9. Guest Associate Editor – Special Issue on “Freshwater Science in Africa” with Dr Prof. Francis Arimoro, Dr Tatenda Dalu and Dr Gretchen Gettel,
   Frontiers in Environmental Science: Freshwater Science Section.
10. Guest Associate Editor – Special Issue on “Wetland Sustainability and Biodiversity Conservation” with Dr Idrissa Kabore, Dr Emmanuel Hema and Dr Paul Meulenbroek. Frontiers in Environmental Science: Freshwater Science Section
11. Guest Associate Editor – Special Issue on “Advances in Biomonitoring for the Sustainability of Vulnerable African Riverine Ecosystems” with Prof. Gordon O’Brien and Prof. Francis Arimoro. Frontiers in Water: Environmental Water Quality & Water and Human Systems Sections.
12. Guest Editor – Special Issue on “Ecological Assessment of Wetlands” with Dr. Gwendolin Porst and Prof. Kenneth Irvine. Water Journal (MDPI),
    Academic Editor – PLOS ONE and PeerJ,
13. Editorial Board Member – Freshwater Biology, International Review of Hydrobiology.
14. Founding Member – African Society for Fisheries & Aquatic Science.
15. Honorary Research Associate – University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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ORCID – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-5049