From
1996 - 2001 Department head for ecological material and
waste management at State Office for Nature and Environment
of Schleswig-Holstein (Landesamt für Natur und Umwelt
des Landes Schleswig-Holstein.)
Job concentration: Prevention of municipal wastes, reduction
of construction related environmental burdens, and environmental
management.
1983
founding of the privately administered Institute for Ecological
Recycling (Institut für Ökologisches Recycling)
in Berlin.
Projects and research on preventive environmental protection
- primarily in connection with waste prevention.
Process chain research of consumer goods: determination of
the ecological effects of raw materials as well as demolition,
processing, transport, utilisation and disposal.
University
education:
Graduation
and Habilitation at the University of Kassel.
Professorial
thesis on global aspects of regional environmental planning on the
basis of material stream processing observations.
Doctoral
thesis on ecological effectiveness of waste prevention and recycling
of municipal wastes.
Study
of industrial sociology at the University of Bielefeld and the Free
University of Berlin.
Engineering
systems study at the Fachhochschule, Reutlingen.
Instruction:
Teaching
contracts
- at the Berlin School of Economics (WS 2006/07)
- at the University of Art Berlin (SS 2005 - WS 2006/07)
- at the University of Lüneburg (SS 2000)
- at the College of
Arts Berlin (1991 - 1996)
From
1988 - 1997 seminars on continued education for specialists
in environmental protection.
Numerous
individual lectures on ecological material and waste
management in regional and federal seminars.
(see Fields
of Activity)
Publications:
Publication
of dissertation, Habilitation dissertation, studies prepared
for public use and numerous specialist articles
(You may find an overview of publications on the page Publications)
Awards:
2008 Environment
Award Berlin-Mitte for a
regional project for resource management (details).
2006
German Material
Efficiency Award
from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology of
Germany (details).
1993
the Berlin Environment Award for the development of
the AIR-PACK, a reusable package modeled after the
air cushion principle.
(You may find particulars on the AIR-PACK on the page Product
Construction).
1991 IDUNA/NOVA
Environment Award from the
Hamburg Trade Commission.
1990
Environment Award Berlin-Steglitz for a concept in
energy conservation and waste prevention.
