Dr. Winfried Bulach

Researcher
Resources & Transport

Special Expertise

• Resource efficiency
• Waste management
• Life-cycle assessment
• Eco-efficiency assessment
• Material flow accounting and analysis
• Bioenergy
• Chemistry, especially polymer chemistry

Key Projects

• Germany 2049 – On the way to a sustainable resource economy
  In-house project of Oeko-Institut
• Recycling of electric vehicles 2020 – Key component power electronics
  funded by: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Berlin
• Substitution as a strategy for reducing the criticality of raw materials for environmental technologies – Determination of potentials for second-best solutions (SubSKrit)
  funded by: Federal Environment Agency, Dessau

Professional Training and Career

• since 2015: Researcher at Oeko-Institut, Resource & Transport Division
• 2015: Researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Material Flow Management and Resource Economy Department
• 2015: Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) from Technische Universität Darmstadt, thesis title ”Material Flow Management of Organic Waste from Households“
• 2011-2015: Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis
• 2008-2010: Researcher at German Polymer Institut (DKI), Darmstadt
• 2002-2008: Graduate degree in chemistry (Dipl.-Ing.) from Technische Universität Darmstadt

Language Skills

• English