About me
I come from Bremen and grew up with water as a self-evident part of the landscape. My grandparents had a house directly on the river. Where a sandy beach and floodplains lay in the 1950s, there is a high flood dyke today. How much landscape, land use and our handling of water can change was something I experienced there early and in very practical terms.
I later lived and worked in the Netherlands for many years. My professional background is commercial to begin with: international customers, sales, production and logistics. During my time at Norit, a Dutch manufacturer of activated carbon, water took on a new, technical dimension for me. Activated carbon is used, among other places, where water quality is decisive — from wastewater treatment to the preparation of drinking water. Water was no longer only part of a landscape, but also a question of quality, limit values, technical processes and reliable operations.
At the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam a further perspective was added. In the programme Aarde en Economie I worked on water management, land use, flood protection and the question of how natural, technical and economic systems interact. In Vienna I continued along that path with the engineering programme in Environmental and Bio-Resource Management at BOKU — deliberately interdisciplinary, and that is exactly how I like to work.
Today I am particularly occupied with questions around spatial planning and land use, water, environment and infrastructure. I enjoy working my way into new questions, researching, analysing and structuring information. Costs, processes, users and feasibility belong to a project for me just as much as its technical foundations.
At HomepageLotse I work in sales and accompanied the conceptual rework of the web presence. Behind that lies a question I keep meeting in other fields as well: how can something complex be structured and conveyed so that it becomes understandable and usable for others?
