Dr.-Ing. Martin Zimmermann
Head of the Research Unit Coupled Infrastructures
+49 69 7076919-44
+49 69 7076919-11
zimmermann@isoe.de
Martin Zimmermann has been a research scientist at ISOE since 2014. He has been head of the research unit Coupled Infrastructures since April 2023. Before, he was head of the research unit Water Infrastructure and Risk Analyses.
Martin Zimmermann studied civil engineering and economics at Technische Universität Darmstadt with a focus on environmental, spatial, and infrastructural planning. He obtained his PhD in the DFG postgraduate school Topology of Technology and the Institute IWAR at TU Darmstadt with a thesis on sustainable transformations of central northern Namibia’s water supply system. After that, he worked as a postdoc at the chair of Human-Environment Relations, Department of Geography, University of Munich.
Focus of research
- Transformation of social-ecological systems
- Multi-criteria sustainability assessment
- Applied systems analysis
- Domestic water management
- Vulnerability of critical infrastructures
Projects
- AquaticPollutantsTransNet – Knowledge transfer for the reduction of pollutants and pathogens in the water cycle
- GreeN-H2 Namibia – Feasibility study on green hydrogen in Namibia
- LiveSewer – KI-basiertes Abwassermonitoring
- P-Net – Regional network for resource-efficient phosphorus recycling and management
- SCIP Plastics – Strengthening Waste Prevention in Khulna and Reducing Marine Plastic Pollution
- Assessment of the potential for the use of service water in Frankfurt am Main
- CuveWaters – Sustainable Water Management in Namibia
- EPoNa – Water Reuse in Northern Namibia
- HypoWave – New Pathways Towards Wastewater Re-Use in Agriculture
- IntenKS – Improving sewage sludge treatment in China for energetic and material utilisation
- Cognitive integration and innovation
- “LebensWert” – Development Management for Maintaining the Quality of Life in small towns Facing Demographic Change
- MULTI-ReUse – Modular treatment system for water reuse
- NaCoSi – Sustainability controlling of the domestic water management
- netWORKS 3 – Sustainable concepts for the municipal water sector
- Semizentral – Infrastructure systems for cities of the future experiencing rapid growth
- TRAPA India – Transition pathways for solving urban wastewater problems in Indian cities