Marco Ritzkowski
Environmental engineer
Marco Ritzkowski is a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at the Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics. He participated in several national and international research-projects in connection with landfill-behaviour of municipal solid waste, waste pre-treatment as well as aftercare of MSW landfills. He is the Leader of the IWWG Task Group on Landfill Aeration since 2004 and IWWG Managing Director since 2012.
Professional development:
| 1998 - 2008 | Researcher at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics (Formerly Institute of Waste Resources Management) | ||
| 2008 - date | Project manager at TuTech Innovation GmbH | ||
Projects (national / international)
| 1999 - 2007 | BMBF R&D-Project „Accelerated aerobic in situ stabilisation of the old Kuhstedt landfill for costs and aftercare minimisation“ | ||
| 2000 - 2002 | FP5: EU-INCO-Copernicus project „Pre-Treatment and Safe Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste and Waste Water Sludge for Environmental Protection – PSDWSEP” | ||
| 2001 | Development, organisation and conduction of an advanced trainings course „Fundamentals of Waste Management – Waste Management Concept for the City of Amman“ in Amman, Jordan | ||
| 2005 - 2008 | FP6: EU-INCO project „Management of environmental risks associated with landfills in seismically active regions in the New Independent States (NIS) of Central Asia – NISMIST” | ||
| 2007 - 2008 | R&D project: Behavior of alkaline batteries under simulated landfill conditions | ||
| 2009 - 2012 | EU INTERREG IVB North Sea Region Program: Impact of Climate Change on the quality of urban and coastal waters (Diffuse Pollution) - DiPol | ||
| 2012 - date | R&D project: Improvement of the long term emission behavior of the Teuftal landfill (CH) | ||
Professional functions and societies
| 1999 - 2008 | Member of the examination board "Civil Engineering and Environmental Technology" at the Hamburg University of Technology | ||
| 1999 - 2005 | Member of the BWK (Bund der Ingenieure für Wasserwirtschaft, Abfallwirtschaft und Kulturbau e.V.) working group „Residual Waste Tretament“ | ||
| 2004 - date | Leader of the IWWG (International Waste Working Group) Task Group “Landfill Aeration“ | ||
| 2003 - date | Development and execution of the IWWG advanced training course „Landfill gas management“ during the „International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium“ in Sardinia, Italy. | ||
| 2008 | Lectures in the framework of the IWWG advanced training courses „Sanitary Landfills“ in Lima, Peru (Subjects: „Fundamentals of sanitary landfills“, „Sanitary landfill operation“, „Landfill gas generation and management“ and „Water balances and leachate generation“) | ||
| 2008 - date | Lecturer at the TUHH (Courses: Biological waste treatment & Landfilling, Contaminated sites & Landfilling) | ||
| 2008 - date | Member of the Scientific Advisory Pannel of the IWWG | ||
| 2009 - date | Consultant for several new CDM methodologies related to landfill aeration and climate protection (on request of UNFCCC) | ||
Contact information
Hamburg University of Technology
Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics
Harburger Schlossstrasse 36, 21079 Hamburg, Germany
+49 (0)40 428782053 +49 (0)40 428782375 fax
E-Mail: m.ritzkowski@tuhh.de