Team

Core Team

Prof. Dr. Petra Schneider
Ms Schneider is Professor of International Water Management, Head of the Master's degree programme in Ecological Engineering and Head of the working group Ecological Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. Her teaching and research areas include:

• International water management and global change
• Material flow and resource management
• Resource efficiency, environmental management and sustainable resource management
• Ecologically oriented planning, environmental planning and ecological monitoring
• Land recycling, remediation strategies water & soil, substitute building materials and safe working in contaminated areas
• Nature-based solutions, green infrastructure and climate adaptation
• River engineering, engineering biology and implementation of the EU-WFD

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Julia-Marie Zigann, M.Eng.
Ms Zigann studied Recycling and Waste Management at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal in her Bachelor's degree and successfully completed her Master's degree in Ecological Engineering. She has been a climate protection manager at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal since June 2021.

Tino Fauk, M.Eng.
After qualifying as a business administrator, Mr Fauk studied Recycling Management at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences in his Bachelor's degree and successfully completed his Master's degree in Ecological Engineering. Since April 2022, he has been a research assistant in the UGI Plan project and is developing a municipal simulation tool for water balance and urban climate in cooperation with the Magdeburg Urban Planning Office. He is also involved in the KontraVital project,  in which he is investigating counterproductive ecosystem services of the biodiversity of urban green infrastructure.

Lukas Folkens, M.Sc.
Mr Folkens studied Business Administration (dual) at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal in his Bachelor's degree and successfully completed his Master's degree in Ecological Engineering. Since 2019, he has been working as a research assistant in various projects at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, currently in the DryRivers project, where the focus is on developing tools for sustainable low water risk management (NWRM). Since 2022, he has been a doctoral student at the PhD Centre "Environment and Technology" at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal.

Conrad Dorer, M.Sc.
Mr Dorer studied Biochemistry in Halle/S. and completed the SLE Postgraduate Programme "International Cooperation" at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Among other things, he worked for GIZ in CIS countries and Southeast Asia and was a research assistant for several years at the Environmental Research Centre in Leipzig (isotope biogeochemistry) and at the German Environment Agency in Dessau (resource efficiency, ecodesign and sustainable consumption). Since April 2023, he has been responsible for the Client II project RENO-TITAN at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal.

Assistant Scientists

Gina Wilhelm holds a Bachelor's degree in Recycling and Waste Management and is now studying for a Master's degree in Engineering Ecology. She is involved in the Recycle-Bionet project and is in charge of the demonstrators for green roofs and plastic-reinforced soil on the university campus.

Hooriyeh Piroozmehr has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, which she obtained in Iran. She is currently studying Water Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal and works on the UGI Plan project, in which she writes her Master's thesis on urban water management.

Vincent Rochell supervises the Engineering Ecology students as part of various tutorials. He studied Water Management at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal and is currently in the Master's thesis phase of his Engineering Ecology degree. His master's thesis deals with low water management through ecological water and landscape development using the example of the watercourse Schölecke.

Bahaa Alami studied physics in Lebanon for two semesters before enrolling in the Sustainable Resources, Engineering and Management (StREaM) Bachelor's degree program at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. He has several years of experience as a biomaterials producer and permaculture expert.

Alexander Marx graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering from Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin and is studying for a Master's degree in Water Management at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. In the Recycle-Bionet project, he conducts his master's thesis on the analysis of ecosystem services and biotope networking potential of elements of urban green infrastructure with a focus on green roofs using the example of Magdeburg.

Former Scientific Employees of our Group

Fengqing Li, PhD
Mr Li studied Ecology at Shandong University Jinan in the People's Republic of China and completed his Master's and Ph.D. in Hydrobiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan in the People's Republic of China. He worked as a research scientist in the Department of Biology at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea, and at the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research in the Division River Ecology and Conservation before joining the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal and completing a Master's degree in Water Management. At the same time, he worked as a research assistant on the TRANSPOND and SAND! projects.

Naveedh Ahmed Sekar, M.Sc.
Mr Sekar holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Biotechnology from Anna University Chennai in India. Afterwards he studied Environmental and Resource Management at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. In the SAND! project, he worked on sand scarcity and substitute building materials in Vietnam, a key issue that also plays a relevant role in India.

Dominik Mirschel, M.Sc.
Mr Mirschel studied Water Management at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal and then successfully completed his studies in Ecological Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. He was employed as a research assistant in the Recycle-KBE project in the Ecological Engineering working group.

Paul Sta­chowiak, M. Eng.
Mr Sta­chowiak stud­ied Wa­ter Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ap­plied Sci­ences Magde­burg-Sten­dal in his Bach­e­lor's de­gree and suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed his Mas­ter's de­gree in Wa­ter En­gi­neer­ing. Between Jan­u­ary 2022 and December 2023, he worked as a re­search as­sis­tant in the Re­cy­cle-Bionet pro­ject and developed al­ter­na­tive sub­strates for green roofs made of sub­sti­tute build­ing ma­te­ri­als in co­op­er­a­tion with the Magde­burg Ur­ban Plan­ning Of­fice.