Dr.-Ing. Martin Zimmermann
Head of research unit
+49 69 7076919-44
+49 69 7076919-11
zimmermann@isoe.de
Martin Zimmermann is a research scientist at ISOE and has been head of the research unit Water Infrastructure and Risk Analyses since July 2018. He 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 this, he has been working 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
- Assessment of the potential for the use of service water in Frankfurt am Main
- IntenKS – Improving sewage sludge treatment in China for energetic and material utilisation
- P-Net – Regional network for resource-efficient phosphorus recycling and management
- TRAPA India – Transition pathways for solving urban wastewater problems in Indian cities
- “LebensWert” – Development Management for Maintaining the Quality of Life in small towns Facing Demographic Change
- Cognitive integration and innovation
- CuveWaters – Sustainable Water Management in Namibia
- Environmental Risks and Pharmaceuticals: The Key Role of Pharmacies
- EPoNa – Water Reuse in Northern Namibia
- HypoWave – New Pathways Towards Wastewater Re-Use in Agriculture
- 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