About Me

Dr. Eng. Environment ETH

I develop methods and tools to support planning and decision making related to (urban) water and waste management. I try to answer questions around how to build the sustainable sanitation systems combining novel and conventional technologies and considering local appropriateness, resource recovery, climate change, and stakeholder preferences. The aim is to enable practice and policy to consider novel technology and system configurations and their contribution to circular economies, ecological cities, and climate change adaption, particularly in rapidly expanding urban areas. 

As a trained environmental engineer I combine expertise about technology design with methods from material flow analysis, sustainability evaluation, multi-criteria decision analysis, and participatory planning.
So far, I have been working mainly with human waste (excreta and urine, blackwater, and greywater) but I am currently expanding the scope of my methods to consider also stormwater and organic solid waste, and how different waste streams can be managed integrated in a sustainable citywide system.
Whenever possible, I adopt not only an inter- and trans-disciplinary approach, but also a design thinking approach in close collaboration with partners from practice and policy in order to have a positive impact on society and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Projects

SESP develops methods and tools supporting sanitation technology and system selection in strategic planning

SaniChoice

Development of systematic but generic methods for the generation of locally appropriate sanitation system options and for the quantification of sustainability performance indicators.

Generation and Assessment of Sanitation Systems for Strategic Planning (GRASP)

Visual narratives for more inclusive and integrated urban water management

Urban Water Flow Diagram

An inter- and transdisciplinary strategic research program that strives to develop novel non-gridconnected water and sani- tation systems that can function as comparable alternatives to network-based systems.

Water and sanitation innovations for non-grid solutions (Wings)

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Curriculum Vitae

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