Job
Scientific Managing Director
Field of work
Michael Nelles is an environmental engineer at the TU Berlin and covers the following areas in R&D and consulting: fundamental and practice-oriented challenges of waste management, especially technical, ecological and economic aspects of mechanical, biological and thermal treatment of waste and biomass in concepts for material and energy recovery. He is a member of numerous national and international advisory boards of organisations, conferences and journals in the fields of waste management and biomass use. He is editor of numerous reference books and conference volumes as well as author of about 400 contributions in reference books and technical periodicals since 1994. The emphasis of the international activities lies in Asia and there in particular in China.
Keywords
Technical environmental protection, waste, biomass, recycling, waste management, bioenergy
My publications
Curriculum vitae
Since 2012 | Scientific Managing Director |
Since 2006 | Professor, holder of the Chair of Waste and Material Flow Management; |
2000 - 2006 | Professor and Head of the Department of Technical Environmental Protection |
1994 - 2000 | Senior engineer |
1993 - 1994 | Project engineer |
Education
1998 | Doctorate (Dr. mont., Department of Industrial Environmental Protection and Recycling) |
1986 - 1993 | Studies of technical environmental protection, degree: Diplom-Ingenieur |
Committee work
| since 01/2022 | Coordinator of Germany's activities as a National Member of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| since 01/2022 | Member of the Energy and Climate Protection Advisory Board at the Saxon State Ministry for Energy, Climate Protection, Environment and Agriculture, Dresden, Germany |
since 4/2014 | Member of the Strategy Council Economy-Science Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (among others Board of the Field of Action 1 "Hydrogen Technologies and Renewable Energies" of the RIS 2021 - 2026 of the State Government Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin |
since 2014 | Visiting Professor at the Institute for Renewable Energies at the Petroleum University Beijing, China |
since 2013 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Environmental Research Centre (UFZ) of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Leipzig |
since 10/2012 | Member of the Executive Board Bioeconomy e.V., BMBF-Cluster Bioökonomie, Leuna |
since 6/2012 | Member of the Research Steering Committee of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), Berlin |
since 2011 | Visiting Professorship at the Faculty of Energy and Environmental Sciences, Aviation University of Shenyang, China |
9/2011 | Award "National Friendship Prize of the People's Republic of China" for achievements in the field of environmental research and education, China |
since 2011 | Environmental consultant to the Chinese state government and provincial governments with focus on Anhui Province, China |
since 2011 | Member of the German Waste Management Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Abfallwirtschaft e.V.) (DGAW), among others co-organizer of the DGAW Science Congresses, Berlin |
since 2009 | Advisory Board of the Working Group on Material-Specific Waste Treatment, ASA e.V. |
since 2009 | Chairman of the German-Chinese Centre in Anhui Province, China |
2009 - 2018 | Co-editor of the scientific magazine "Waste Management", Italy |
2008 - 2013 | Chairman of the District Association and Regional Association of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
2008 - 2012 | Member or Chairman (2011-2012) of the Scientific Advisory Board of the DBFZ in Leipzig |
9/2007 | Anhui Province Yellow Mountain Friendship Award for achievements in environmental research and education, China |
since 2007 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the scientific magazine "Müll & Abfall", Berlin |
since 2007 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Association of Bioenergy e.V. (BBE), Bonn |
2006 - 2021 | Member respectively director (2006-2012) of the Working Group for the Utilization of Solid Waste (Arbeitskreis für die Nutzbarmachung von Siedlungsabfällen ANS e.V.), (end of 2021 merger with DGAW), Braunschweig, Germany |
since 2005 | Director of the Chinese-German Centre for Environmental Technology & Knowledge Transfer (CETK) of Anhui Province, Hefei, China |
since 2002 | Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Environment and Biotechnology, University of Hefei, China |
since 1994 | Organizer and member of scientific advisory boards of several national and international conferences in the field of waste management and bioenergy (e.g. DGAW Scientific Congress Waste and Resource Management, Dialogue Waste Management Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Münster Waste Days, DepoTech Leoben (Austria) Environmental Conference Hefei (China), Waste Conference Hong Kong (China), Waste to Energy Conference Venice (Italy), Rostock Bioenergy Forum, IBC Leipzig, VDI Biogas Conference, DBU Biogas Innovation Congress etc.) |