Indo-German Centre for Sustainability: PD Dr.-Ing. Dirk Weichgrebe joins as IGCS Area Coordinator for the Focus Area of Waste Management

The Leibniz University Hannover joined in January 2023 as a new partner university at the Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS). PD Dr.-Ing. Dirk Weichgrebe from the Institute of Urban Water Management and Waste Engineering has been the IGCS Area Coordinator for the Focus Area of Waste Management since then.

The Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS) conducts research on current sustainability challenges, disseminates the knowledge thus generated and promotes the exchange of students and researchers. The IGCS is located on the campus of the Indian Institute of Madras (IITM) in Chennai, South India. On the German side, the RWTH Aachen University is in charge.

From January, LUH will provide one of the IGCS area coordinators: PD Dr.-Ing. Dirk Weichgrebe from the ISAH will head the waste management area. In the future, a post-doc will also support him with his own teaching activities at IIT Madras. Weichgrebe teaches and conducts research primarily on waste and recycling management. The core of his task at the IGCS is to further develop the research and networking activities between India and Germany on the topic of circular economy and resource conservation.

The focus is on the following topics - also in close exchange with the other IGCS core areas:

• Greenhouse gas reduction through pyrolytic processing of organic municipal waste
• Development and implementation of cross-sectoral circular economy measures in the water-food-energy-waste/residue nexus
• Sustainable recovery and recycling of post-consumer plastics.

Further information:

• On IGCS: https://www.igcs-chennai.org/