Dr. Alain Maasri is a freshwater ecologist at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (Berlin, Germany) and a research associate at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (Philadelphia, United States). He obtained his Bachelor’s degree from the Université Saint Joseph in Lebanon and his Masters and PhD degrees from Aix-Marseille Université in France where he examined the ecology and functioning of Mediterranean streams. His research interests include freshwater biodiversity, community ecology, and functional ecology of stream macroinvertebrates. Dr. Maasri has been researching freshwater ecosystems and communities for over 15 years across the Mediterranean basin, Mongolia, and the United States of America.