M.A. Political Science
Researcher
Axel Dierich

Fields of Expertise
- Sustainable infrastructure development for dynamically changing regions
- Urban farming and utilization of local resources
- Cross-sector interdependencies of technical infrastructures
Current Projects
- CIRMin: Increased Resilience of Critical Infrastructures
- Wastewater treatment plant of the future: Energy storage in interaction with technical infrastructure between the poles of energy generation and consumption (ESiTI)
- Threat scenarios and use context analysis for the research project "Innovative monitoring and sterilization processes for the microbiological security in the production chain of fresh vegetable food” SAFEFRESH
Completed Projects
- ZFarm. Innovation- and Technology-Analysis Zero Acreage Farming
- SIMKAS 3D: "Simulation of intersectorial cascade effects through breakdowns in supply infrastructures using a virtual 3D city model of Berlin"
- Analysis of the Saxony specialist support programme and other Federal and State support programmes
- Future-compliant water infrastructure systems for regions undergoing change
- Institutional and organisational reform of the water and wastewater sectors in Iran
- National Waste Water Financing and Investment Strategy in Iran
- Future-compliant infrastructure solutions for shrinking regions – resource management from an entrepreneurial point of view: new competition regulations and business concepts based on the example of Brandenburg pilot regions – concretisation project
Professional Experience
- Complan Kommunalberatung: Management of urban development processes and involvement of citizens
- Institute for Urban and Regional Planning, Technische Universität Berlin: International network management for Alumni from Developing Countries
- in.nova – Business Consultants, Berlin: Analysis and evaluation of housing markets and forms of cooperation in urban renewal
Education
- Political Science Studies at the Universities of Hamburg and Potsdam
- Additional studies of urban and regional planning
- Studies abroad in Lyon, France