The only professorship of the institute focuses on research and teaching on the following topics: Increasing efficiency in waste-fired plants, co2 balancing, climate protection and waste management, processes for fuel from waste, informal sector in waste management, biogas production from biogenic waste and renewable raw materials, risk management of chemicals and products in the circular economy and trends and potentials of a resource-efficient and low-emission urban development.

Among the staff of the institute are former graduates of the degree program “waste management and contaminated sites” as well as process engineers, chemists, biologists, hydrologists and water managers and a wide range of scientists from various disciplines. Their cooperation is essential in solving questions on the complex issue of material flow management and the various aspects of the circular economy and decontamination of contaminated sites.

The professorship of Waste Management and Circular Economy is thematically composed of several different working groups. These include, in addition to the thermal and biological processes of waste treatment, the teaching and research area of groundwater and soil remediation.