Daniel Ohl
Team
Master of Science (M. Sc.)
Email: daniel.ohl(at)inzin.de
Vita
Daniel Ohl has been a scholarship holder at the INZIN Institute since July 2024 and is researching new indicators and assessments of technologies for the circular economy. He completed his Master’s degree in Applied Chemistry at TH Köln in September 2023 with a focus on green and sustainable chemistry. Before that, he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Business Chemistry at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Last year, he completed an internship at Prognos AG in the field of sustainability consulting with first projects in the field of circular economy and chemical recycling.
Dr. Lukas Gast
Team
Team Leader Circular Economy
Email: lukas.gast(at)inzin.de
Vita
Dr. Lukas Gast supports the development of the “Circular Economy” area at INZIN in his role as team leader. Previously, he worked as a strategy consultant and research assistant on various projects in the energy sector. He studied industrial engineering at the TU Berlin and Engineering for Sustainable Development and subsequently completed a doctorate in engineering at the University of Cambridge.
In his research and teaching, he focuses on resource efficiency and sustainable innovations in energy-intensive industry with the aim of accelerating the transition to greenhouse gas neutrality and a circular economy.
Lukas Gast is an honorary board member of DGAW e.V., a member of the working group on fundamental issues in resource management and supports the Science Congress (WiKo). His engineering firm focuses on advising (medium-sized) companies in the areas of sustainability, energy and the circular economy.
Sabrin Omri
Team
Student Assistant
Email: sabrin.omri(at)inzin.de
Vita
Sabrin Omri graduated from Görres-Gymnasium in 2020 and has been studying film and television at Macromedia University in Cologne ever since. She is particularly interested in staging and portraying different realities of life.
She has been supporting the INZIN Institute since February 2024, particularly with administrative tasks.
Christian Großhauser
Team
Graduate Industrial Engineer
E-mail: christian.grosshauser(at)inzin.de
Vita
Christian Großhauser was born in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg in 1985 and has been a scholarship holder at the INZIN Institute since May 2023. As part of the scholarship, he conducts research on the topic of “Investigation and optimization of the methane formation rate in methanation reactors” on a pilot plant of MicroPyros BioEnerTec GmbH in Straubing. This is intended to make an important contribution to the green energy transition. Parallel to this research project, he continues to work as a project manager at Straubinger Energie- und Reststoffverwertungs GmbH (SER GmbH). There he works in the fields of wastewater treatment, (thermal) sewage sludge disposal, phosphorus recovery and energy generation from biogenic materials. He completed his degree in industrial engineering with a focus on mechanical engineering at Kempten University of Applied Sciences in 2015. Before making the switch to wastewater treatment, he gained years of experience in the automotive industry.
Pauline Jegen
Team
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Industrial Engineering
Specialization in Civil Engineering
E-mail: pauline.jegen(at)inzin.de
Vita
Pauline Jegen, born in Aachen in 1996, has been a scholarship holder at the INZIN Institute since October 2021 and is funded by Remondis. Ms. Jegen also works as a research assistant at TU Dortmund University.
She previously studied industrial engineering with a specialization in civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University. She focused on the specializations of water management and sustainability and cooperation. During her studies, she gained practical experience in construction management and project management as well as in an engineering office for wastewater management and technical services.
Cara Schönmüller
Team
Research Assistant
E-mail: cara.schoenmueller(at)inzin.de
Vita
Cara Schönmüller has been working as a research assistant for the INZIN Institute in the areas of public relations and event planning since February 2023.
In the Green Economy Network North Rhine-Westfalia (KNUW), she supports the regional networking of companies in the Green Economy and the organization of regional and business dialogues.
Konstantin Saure
Team
Master of Engineering (M. Eng.)
E-mail: konstantin.saure(at)inzin.de
Vita
Konstantin Saure has been a scholarship holder and lecturer at the INZIN Institute since January 2023 and is develops a “Resource strategy for the state capital Düsseldorf” as part of his scholarship at Stadtwerke Düsseldorf. During his Master’s degree, he worked as a research assistant on the state-funded project “WIR!-Bündnis REEgion now – Regionales Wertschöpfungsbündnis Lifelines in NWB”. He completed his Master’s degree in the interdisciplinary course “Energy Efficiency of Technical Systems” at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences. Prior to this, he completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.
Sarah Friese
Team
Master of Science (M. Sc.)
E-mail: sarah.friese(at)inzin.de
Vita
Sarah Friese, born in Hildesheim in 1993, has been a scholarship holder at the INZIN Institute since May 2022 and works on the project “Model projects of spatial planning (MORO): Shaping climate change and the energy transition – preparatory study for the Spatial Planning Report 2024”. She previously worked as a junior project manager at Thüringer Erneuerbare Energien Netzwerk (ThEEN) e.V. (Thuringian Renewable Energy Network). As part of this competence network, she was responsible for the association’s work, the organization of specialist events and the project management of smart city and environmental heat projects. From 2018 – 2020, she completed a Master’s degree in “Renewable Energy Management” at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences after completing her Bachelor’s degree in “Industrial Engineering for Sustainable Technologies” in 2018.
Prof. Dr. Martin Faulstich
Team
Director
Vita
Martin Faulstich has held the Chair of Resource and Energy Systems at the Technical University of Dortmund since 2020, having previously held chairs at Clausthal University of Technology and the Technical University of Munich. He has also taught and conducted research as a visiting professor at several universities. He has many years of experience in the realignment and establishment of economic research centers. These include the restructuring of a traditional steel research facility in Sulzbach-Rosenberg and the founding of the science center in Straubing.
Martin Faulstich has also been active in policy consulting for many years, including as Chairman of the German Advisory Council on the Environment from 2008 to 2013 and currently as Co-Chairman of the Resources Commission at the Federal Environment Agency. He is a member of committees of renowned institutions, including the Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL), ifo Institute for Economic Research, EUREF-Campus Berlin, Hamburg Institute HiiCCE, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research until 2018, Daimler and Benz Foundation until 2022 as well as international committees in the EU, Austria, Czech Republic, Belarus and Singapore.
Martin Faulstich is editor of the magazine Nachhaltige Industrie and on the advisory boards of the magazines Müll und Abfall, Wasser und Abfall and EnergieRecht.
Jule Jeschonowski-Papstein
Team
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Industrial Engineering,
Specialization in production/logistics/manufacturing
E-mail: jule.jeschonowski(at)inzin.de
Vita
Jule Jeschonowski-Papstein, born in Nettetal in 1995, has been researching ecodesign, a key aspect of the circular economy, as a scholarship holder at the INZIN Institute in cooperation with Veolia since October 2021. Mrs. Jeschonowski-Papstein also works as a research assistant at the TU Dortmund University.
Previously, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Wuppertal in the teaching and research area of construction management and construction industry in the field of modern construction management as well as the digitization and optimization of processes within the framework of BIM. She studied industrial engineering with a specialization in production/logistics and manufacturing at the HS Niederrhein and HS Hamm-Lippstadt.