Department of Material Flow Management and Resource Economics

University education:

1990: Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (as research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry/Department of Biogeochemistry)

1976 - 1983: Studied chemistry at Darmstadt Technical University (degree: Dipl.-Ing.)

Professional career

Since 2016:Scientific Director of the “Resource Cycles” division of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies (IWKS)

Since 2013: University Professor and Head of the Department of Material Flow Management and Resource Economics, IWAR Institute, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt

2000 - 2013: University Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial Material Cycles, IWAR Institute, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt

1999 - 2012: Head of the Central Department of Technology-related Material Flows, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT (since 2008 Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis ITAS of the Karlsruhe Research Center)

1990-1999: Project Manager Lahmeyer International, Frankfurt (since 1998 ERM Lahmeyer International, Niederrad)

1987 - 1990: Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz

1983 - 1987: Research assistant at the Öko-Institut e. V., Darmstadt office