AUTARKY - Key Persons
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- Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Member
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- Specialist Group: Assessment and Control of Hazardous Substances in Water: Committee Member
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- Working Group 6: Cities: Working Group Chair
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- Working Group 1: Capacity Development: Working Group Chair
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- Group Leader, Cluster
- Sustainability Transition Research Network ( STRN ) Thematic Group on the Geography of Sustainability Transitions Chair
Christian is a group leader in the cluster Sustainable Transitions and Business Innovations (CIRUS) at the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at Eawag, an Associate Post-Doctoral Researcher at CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden, and a guest lecturer at the University of Zurich.
He received his PhD in Economic Geography from the University of Bern in 2012. Christian is a recipient of the Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Sustainability Science (2015) at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and has worked as a post-doctoral Research Fellow at Lund University (Sweden), UC Berkeley (USA), Tsinghua University (China) and Eawag.
His main research interests are centered on transformative innovation in the water, energy, transport and construction sectors. By combining recent insights from transition studies, economic geography and institutional sociology, he aims to explore how multi-scalar institutional arrangements condition the emergence of new clean-tech industries and broader transformations toward sustainable development. He has extensive experience in working in interdisciplinary research projects and has covered green innovation and transition processes in both developed (EU, US, Switzerland) and emerging economies (China, India).
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- Core Group Member
- Working Group 4: Sanitation Systems, Hygiene and Health: Working Group Chair
In 1998, Christian Zurbrügg joined the Department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries (Sandec), which is now Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) as a tenure track researcher in the field of solid waste management in developing countries and obtained tenure in 2002. In 2004 he took over the responsibility as head of department Sandec. From August 2015 to February 2023 he acted as a member of the Eawag directorate. Currently he heads the Solid Waste Management research group as senior researcher and group leader.
Dr. Christian Zurbrügg received his BSc. and MSc. degree in Geology at the University of Berne, Switzerland. He then worked as a consultant in a geotechnical engineering enterprise before continuing his education with a postgraduate diploma on urban water resources management and water conservation and protection at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and Eawag. In 1992 he joined ETHZ as a research associate in the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology and then in 1997 collaborated with the Department of Civil Engineering at University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada) as flood hydrologist.
His current research interests lie in the interdisciplinary approach of upgrading infrastructure and services in urban areas of low and middle income countries - with a special focus on sanitation, solid waste and water. He has led several international programs and projects, published many scientific articles and book chapters on appropriate technology and enabling environments in low income settings, and serves on many international committees, task forces and juries.
As Head of Sandec he obtained the IWA Development Solutions Award for Science in recognition of outstanding innovation or contribution to science which has led to demonstrable uptake, impact or influence at national, regional or international levels in low and middle income countries.
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- Group Leader, Cluster: EnvEco
Mihalič, T., Logar, I. (2014). Theoretical and applied approaches for monitoring environmental performance. In: Mihalič, T. Designing models for measuring business performance of hotel companies. Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana, pp. 36-67. [In Slovenian]
Logar, I., van den Bergh J.C.J.M. (2012). Respondent uncertainty in contingent valuation of preventing beach erosion: an analysis with a polychotomous choice question. Journal of Environmental Management, 113: 184-193.
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- Group Leader / Department
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- Risk Manager
- Member of Safety and Risk Management Committee
- Risk Manager Tel.
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- Group Leader, Environmental Health Psychology / Department
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- Head of Department and Group Leader ( She / Her ) Tel.
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- Group Leader / Department
Hi everyone! My name is Olga and I am co-leading the Microbial Systems Ecology group together with Prof. Martin Ackermann.
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- Geneva Water Hub Research Network, Advisory Committee Member
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- Group Leader
- Senior Scientist
- Senior Scientist / Group Leader / Department
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- Cross - Working Group Activity: Non - Target Screening ( NTS ) Chair
- Steering Board Member
- Working Group Prioritisation: Working Group Member
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- Specialist Group: Specialist Group on Small Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems: Management Committee Member
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- Global Interest Groups: Animal Alternatives: Steering Team Member
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- Shit Flow Diagram ( SFD ) Promotion Initiative: Steering Committee
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- European Consortium for Political Research ( ECPR ), Political Networks Standing Group, Chair
- Geneva Water Hub Research Network, Advisory Committee Member
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- SETAC GLB, Board of Directors Member
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- ISO / TC 190 WG3 «Assessment of Soil Functions / Ecosystem Services»: Working Group Member
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- UNESCO Chair on Groundwater Arsenic Member
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- P. M., Binz
- P. M., Saur
- Specialist Group: Modelling and Integrated Assessment: Management Committee Member
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- Department Process Engineering
- Specialist Group: Biofilm Processes: Management Committee Chair
- Specialist Group: Environmental Engineering Education E3: Management Committee Member
Eberhard Morgenroth holds an MS (University of California 1994), Dipl.-Ing. (Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg 1995), and PhD (Technical University of Munich 1998), all in civil and environmental engineering. After two years of postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Denmark he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000 to 2009). Since 2009 he is a Professor for Process Engineering in Urban Water Management with appointments at ETH Zürich and at Eawag. At Eawag he is head of the process engineering department. His research interests include wastewater treatment, membrane bioreactors for water reuse, control of biofilms, biofilm reactors, biological drinking water treatment, decentralized wastewater treatment, and energy recovery from wastewater and organic residuals. He is an editor for Water Research and for Water Science & Technology.
I am Full Professor fo Aquatic Ecology at University of Zurich and Eawag. To learn more about my lab and research, visit the homepage of the Altermatt lab and my webpage at University of Zurich. My professorship is supported by and is part of the URPP Global Change and Biodiversity.
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- Associate Editor for Continental Europe for the Journal of Policy & Politics
- Group Leader, Cluster
- Professor at the Institute of Political Science
Karin Ingold is professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern since August 2011 and is also affiliated to the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research. She leads the research group of Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance (PEGO) affiliated to the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern and the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at EAWAG.
Karin Ingold is Associate Editor for Continental Europe for the Journal of Policy & Politics and in the editorial board of the Policy Studies Journal, Swiss Political Science Review, Connections, and European Policy Analysis Journal. She is also the chair of Proclim at SCNAT since 2022 and is thereby engaged in the inter-disciplinary community building and the climate scientific dialogue at the science-policy interface.
In her research, she is interested in the analysis and design of policy processes and instruments. Through her PhD and recent research, she became a scholar of the Advocacy Coalition Framework and other policy process theories. Methodologically, she mainly developed her skills in the conceptual development and application of social network analysis.
Karin Ingold was born 1978 in Solothurn. She is a political scientist and finished her PhD in political and economic sciences at the University of Geneva in 2007. Her PhD thesis is about the analysis of decision-making mechanisms in the Swiss Climate Policy. From 2008 until 2011, Karin Ingold was a senior researcher and lecturer at the Chair for Environmental Policy and Economics at the ETH Zurich. She was mainly involved in research projects dealing with climate change adaptation in Swiss mountain regions, with the diffusion of innovation in forestry, and moreover with the liberalization of utility sectors in Europe. In Spring 2011, Karin Ingold was a visiting scholar at the Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior at UC Davis, California, USA. During this short international visit, she developed her skills in the application of social network analysis, regression analysis, and research design of natural resource policy further.
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- Specialist
- Working Group 4: Engineered Nanomaterials Chair
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- TdAcademy: Partner Innenkreis Member