Dec 23, 2025
Successful completion of several dissertations at IAK in December 2025
Pleasing end to the year
At the end of 2025, the number of doctoral theses successfully defended once again increased, all of which were supervised by the Institute of Waste Management and Circular Economy and rounded off a very eventful year in terms of the successful completion of doctoral theses. These were in November and December 2025 in detail:
Glory Jackeline Martínez Gómez (defense on 11.11.2025)
Topic: Development of a resource-efficient circular economy strategy for the transformation of municipal waste management in developing countries
Annika Pruhs (defense on 12.12.2025)
Topic: Operationalization of 'Design for Circularity' in industrial product development
Anne Geißler (defense on 15.12.2025)
Topic: Opportunities for the biogas industry in the climate-neutral energy system: Optimization approaches using the example of high-performance methanation with immobilized biomass
v.l.n.r.: Prof. Michael Nelles, Universität Rostock; Prof. Christina Dornack, TU Dresden; Anne Geißler; Prof. Christian Abendroth, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg und Prof. Niels Schütze, TU Dresden
Pascal Otto (defense on 15.12.2025)
Topic: Characterization of the core microbiome of anaerobic digestion systems and the potential of manipulating the microbiome by bioaugmentation
v.l.n.r.: Prof. Michael Nelles, Universität Rostock; Prof. Christina Dornack, TU Dresden; Pascal Otto; Prof. Christian Abendroth, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg und Prof. Niels Schütze, TU Dresden
Magdalena Werner (defense on 19.12.2025)
Topic: Ecological consideration of different disposal routes for construction and soil waste
v.l.n.r.: Prof. Kerstin Kuchta, TU Hamburg; Prof. Christina Dornack, TU Dresden; Magdalena Werner; Prof. Sabine Flamme, FH Münster; Prof. Alexandra Weitkamp, TU Dresden und Leonie Dahlmann (Protokollantin)
Earlier this year, Ning Zhang, Markus Reuther, Huyen Chau Dang, Nico Thomas, Benjamin Schwan and Maximilian Auer had already successfully defended their scientific work.