Environmental Engineering Dipl.-Ing., International Land and Water Management M.Sc.
Researcher

Fields of Expertise

• Innovative cross sectoral infrastructure concepts
• Development of land and water management concepts
• Irrigation with treated wastewater
• Material Flow Analysis and Management
• Multi criteria analysis
• Actor and stakeholder analysis

Current Projects

• EmiStop – Identification and reduction of microplastics in industrial wastewater
• ZeroTrace: New absorption material and regeneration processes for eliminating micro-pollutants in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants
• IWRM Zayandeh Rud
  
• FlussHygiene

Completed Projects

• Development of strategies towards sustainable landuse for adoptation to climate change on the downstream region of the Zayandeh Rud
• ROOF WATER-FARM: Water resources for building-integrated agriculture
• Constellation Analysis for RainInfraStructureAdaption (RISA)
• Integrated Water Resource Management in Isfahan
  
• RePro – Ressources from rural areas: Re-use chains in water and energy infrastructures in shrinking regions: Using the example of the model regions, Elbe-Elster (Brandenburg) and Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt)

Professional Experience

• Consultant at the Urban Agriculture Casablanca Project of the Technical University of Berlin in Morocco, feasibility study on the use of Hammam wastewater in agriculture
• Consultant at the Integrated Water Management program of the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Morocco, Coordination of studies on wastewater and rainwater management
• Research work at the environmental institute of the Province of Rio de Janeiro (INEA) in Brazil, conceptual development of a vulnerability assessment towards climate change for the main watersheds in the region
• Thesis research on health risk management of irrigation with treated wastewater in the eThekwini Municipality in South Africa

Education

• Studies in International Land and Water Management at Wageningen University, the Netherlands
• Studies in Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin
• Internships and Assistant positions in Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa and the Republic of Congo