Helmut Rechberger

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Helmut Rechberger (born February 21, 1968 in Linz ) is an Austrian resource manager and university professor at the Technical University of Vienna. The focus of his research activities include the areas of urban mining (research into anthropogenic deposits), waste management , recycling technologies and scientific and technical assessment.

Education and professional career

After graduating from the Bundesrealgymnasium Linz, Helmut Rechberger studied process engineering at the Technical University of Vienna from 1986 to 1994 and then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Water Quality and Waste Management at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology from 1994 to 2000. During this time he wrote his dissertation on the subject of assessing material balances in waste management . After completing his doctorate, he spent a year researching at Yale University . In 2001 he moved to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , where he worked as a senior assistant at the Professorship for Material Management and Disposal Technology (Prof. Peter Baccini ). In 2003, Helmut Rechberger accepted the call to the Vienna University of Technology as Professor of Resource Management.

Awards

  • 1999 Prize of the City of Vienna for scientific work in the environmental field
  • 2000 Phoenix Innovation Prize
  • 2000 Max-Kade scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (financed by the Max-Kade Foundation)

Functions

  • Head of the Research Department Waste Management and Resource Management, Vienna University of Technology
  • Spokesman and coordinator of the Center for Sustainable Technology, TU Vienna

Publications

Publications in scientific journals (selection)

  • TE Graedel, D. van Beers, M. Bertram, K. Fuse, RB Gordon, A. Gritsinin, A. Kapur, RJ Klee, RJ Lifset, L. Memon, H. Rechberger, S. Spatari and D. Vexler: Multilevel cycle of anthropogenic copper . In: Environmental Science and Technology . Volume 38, 2004, No. 4, pp. 1242-1252.
  • RB Gordon, TE Graedel, M. Bertram, K. Fuse, R. Lifset, H. Rechberger and S. Spatari: The characterization of technological zinc cycles . In: Resources, Conservation and Recycling . Volume 39, 2003, No. 2, pp. 107-135.
  • M. Bertram, TE Graedel, K. Fuse, R. Gordon, R. Lifset, H. Rechberger and S. Spatari: The copper cycles of European countries. In: Regional Environmental Change . Volume 3, 2003, pp. 119-127.
  • H. Rechberger, PH Brunner: A new, entropy based method to support waste and resource management decisions . In: Environmental Science and Technology . Volume 34, 2002, No. 4, pp. 809-816.
  • H. Rechberger and PH Brunner: The method of substance concentration efficiency (SKE) for evaluating material balances in waste management. In: Hösel, Bilitewski, Schenkel, Schnurer (ed.): Garbage manual . Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2002, Chapter 8506.1, pp. 1-19.
  • M. Bertram, H. Rechberger, S. Spatari and TE Graedel: The contemporary European copper cycle: waste management subsystem. In: Ecological Economics . Volume 42, 2002, No. 1-2, pp. 43-57.

Books and chapters

  • PH Brunner and H. Rechberger: Handbook of Material Flow Analysis: For Environmental, Resource, and Waste Engineers, Second Edition . CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2016.
  • PH Brunner and H. Rechberger: Practical Handbook of Material Flow Analysis . Lewis Publishers, New York 2004.
  • PH Brunner, LS Morf and H. Rechberger: Thermal Waste Treatment. A Necessary Element for Sustainable Waste Management . In: I. Twardowska, HE Allen, AAF Kettrup and WJ Lacy (Eds.): Solid Waste. Assessment, Monitoring and Remediation . Elsevier Ltd., Kidlington, Oxford 2004, pp. 783-806.
  • PH Brunner and H. Rechberger: Anthropogenic Metabolism and Environmental Legacies . In: I. Douglas (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, Causes and Consequences of Global Environmental Change . Volume 3, Wiley, London 2002, pp. 54-72.
  • H. Rechberger: Development of a method for evaluating material balances in waste management . Dissertation, Wiener Mitteilungen Volume 158, Institute for Water Quality and Waste Management, Vienna University of Technology, 1999.

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SURNAME Rechberger, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian resource manager and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz