Gunnar Brüggmann leads business development for Xylem Vue in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. An industrial engineer by training, he began his professional career in mechanical engineering. His understanding of the critical importance of water as a resource deepened during his time abroad. Today, Gunnar is dedicated to solving major challenges in the water cycle by working closely with utilities and leveraging innovative technologies and digitalization to drive sustainable solutions.

Dr. Carlo W. Becker, a landscape architect based in Berlin, studied landscape planning at the Technical University of Berlin. Following his studies, Dr. Becker worked as a research assistant in the Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning at the TU Berlin, where he also completed his doctorate. Since 1987, he has been a co-partner at bgmr Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, an office with 30 employees. From 2011 to 2017, he served as Vice-Professor for Landscape Architecture at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Dr. Becker is also actively involved as a consultant and judge in numerous projects and competitions.

Dr. Tosca Zech graduated from Technical University of Dresden in 2002 with a diploma degree in Industrial Engineering and Management especially Water Management. In 2008 she received a doctor’s degree at University of Stuttgart having researched at Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB. Her main fields of research were membrane technology, separation of wastewater flows, high load digestion of sewage sludge and energy recovery.

In 2013 Tosca started her career outside the academic world at the engineering consulting Resch + Partner in Weissenburg, Bavaria, as project manager and senior consultant process engineering. In this position she is also responsible for research and development and state subsidies.

In addition, Tosca works as lecturer at OTH Regensburg to teach wastewater treatment including laboratory.

Marcel received a B.Eng. and M.Sc. in pharmaceutical and chemical engineering. During his studies he stayed with the Environmental Sciences Group at the Royal Military College of Canada for six months to investigate the effects of emerging pollutants on microbial communities from soil and wetland ecosystems. After graduation he started to work as an analytical chemist in the pharmaceutical industry before pursuing his Ph.D. studies in environmental health sciences at the RECETOX institute at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. During his Ph.D., Marcel focused on advanced oxidation processes for the removal of natural toxins from surface water. Amongst others, he investigated plasma-based approaches in collaboration with the INP. After receiving his Ph.D., Marcel started to work at the INP, where he is now responsible for the topic Clean Water focusing on the application of plasma methods for the removal of recalcitrant pollutants from water in various applications.

Dr. Ulf Stein is a Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute in Berlin, where he coordinates the Institute’s work in the field of water. He joined Ecologic Institute in 2011, drawing on more than 10 years of professional experience in academic research and knowledge dissemination. His work focuses on the assessment and improvement of European Union (EU) and German water policies and the sustainable management of water resources, particularly with regard to environmental planning, climate change adaptation, aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem services, as well as governance.

Ulf Stein has managed and participated in more than 20 projects including large-scale research projects for various European and national institutions. In addition, he was a member of the European Topic Centre on Inland Coastal and Marine waters (ETC-ICM) as well as the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC-BD) for several years.

Philip Decker studied BSc Environmental Engineering at the TU
Bergakademie Freiberg and specialized in decentralized energy
systems and renewables. He continued his studies at the
University of Edinburgh with a MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems
followed by a PhD in Electrical engineering and Electronics.
Since then, he joined Siemens in London as a Consultant engineer
using gPROMS as process modelling tool for project delivery and
model development. In October 2022 he moved back to Germany
and joined the Operations optimisation and apps team within
Siemens as Lead engineer and is now responsible for leading and
delivering digital twin projects for the water and wastewater as
well as chemical industry using gPROMS and other Siemens tools.