Dr. Dietlinde Quack

Special Expertise

Main areas of research: Sustainable food systems, products and consumption

Topics:

• Sustainable food systems
• Sustainable agriculture and food management
• Product and company-related climate protection
• Product policy, including implementation of the European framework directive EuP
• Labelling

Methods:

• Stakeholder analysis
• Expert interviews
• SWOT analyses
• Transdisciplinary research methods
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
• Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF)
• Product Sustainability Assessment (PROSA)

Key Projects

• GOBIOM: Design options for economically sustainable biodiversity-enhancing milk production systems in the model organic regions of Freiburg and Ravensburg (project management)
• STErn: Socio-ecological transformation of the food system. Shaping the future through the participation of pioneers of change and economically relevant actors
• EcoTopTen – the platform for ecological top products (project management)
• Shaping ecological change – implementation and updating of the Integrated Environmental Programme 2030
• Sustainable, long-term stimulus to overcome the economic consequences of the Corona crisis
• Strategic further development and scientific support of the activities and services of the Competence Centre for Sustainable Consumption
• Consumers4climate: How to position consumer organisations as relevant players in the debate against climate change?
• Sustainable consumption – strategies for societal transformation
• Trafo 3.0 – Governance model for socio-ecological transformation processes in practice: development and testing in three areas of application
• Scientific investigation to increase product-related energy efficiency
• Consumer requirements on carbon footprint or CO₂ labels

Professional Training and Career

• Since 1999: Researcher at Öko-Institut, Sustainable Products & Material Flows Division 
• 1994-2000: PhD studies on “Influence of energy standard and constructive factors on the environmental impact of residential buildings: a life cycle assessment; demonstration project: low-energy houses Heidenheim”, RWTH Aachen University; degree: Dr. rer. nat.
• 1992: Course in environmental management at the vocational training centres of the Bavarian Federations of Employers (bfz); degree: Environmental Management Specialist
• 1985-1992: Diploma studies in Biology, University of Würzburg and State University of New York at Albany; degree: Dipl.-Biologin (Diploma Biologist)

Language Skills

English, French