Dr. Christoph Wünsch is a guest lecturer at the Perm National Research Polytechnic University in Russia.

Since September of this year, Dr. Christoph Wünsch has been a guest lecturer at the Environmental Protection Department of the Perm National Research Polytechnic University (PNRPU, www.pstu.ru.en) in Russia. Until the end of the summer semester 2017, he will travel to the Russian city of Perm twice a year for one week each time to give guest lectures in the field of environmental services. In mid-October, he already gave a general lecture on the topic of "Circular Economy". Further guest lectures will focus, among other things, on the avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions through a modern waste and recycling management system. In addition, Dr. Wünsch will offer webinars for students in Perm as well as participants from Ekaterinburg and Irkutsk on the various processes of waste treatment and especially waste incineration. His involvement as a guest lecturer is rounded off by partial supervision of student theses and of doctoral students. Dr. Wünsch already took over guest lectures at the University in Perm in the past years, which resulted in a joint project on waste characterization and automatic sorting of residual waste in 2014.

The Environmental Protection Department of the PNRPU, which is one of Russia's leading institutes in the field of waste and resource management, works on the key topics of landfills and securing old landfills. With its current focus on the automatic sorting of waste and the recycling of waste, the Russian Environmental Protection Department complements the Institute for Waste and Recycling Management at the TU Dresden very well. Further joint teaching and research projects are already being planned.

Dr. Wünsch works as a research associate at the Institute of Waste and Recycling Management of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences. Here he is involved in many of the bachelor and master modules offered by the chair. His primary research interest is the prevention of greenhouse gas emissions in waste and recycling management.

Text: Susanne Mondzech (Department of Construction and Environment)