Udo Schwarzer

Udo Schwarzer is a biologist and CEO of Bio Piscinas Lda. based in Aljezur, Portugal (www.biopiscinas.pt). Founding partner of IOB (2009) and GIABN (2007), president of IOB from 2009 to 2017, currently in the position of secretary of GIABN.
As designers of Bio Piscinas Lda., together with his wife Claudia Schwarzer, landscape architect, he has designed and built more than 250 biological swimming pools in Portugal since 1995, among these 60 for tourist use. He is member of IUCN/SSC freshwater plants specialist group and author of several technical publications about swimming pools with biological treatment.