Dr. Marco Ritzkowski

Education
Environmental and Civil engineer ,Hamburg University of Technology Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics.Marco Ritzkowski is assistant Professor at Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics. In 2005 he received his PhD from the same University. He participated in several national and international research-projects regarding the landfill-behaviour of municipal solid waste, waste pre-treatment and aftercare of MSW landfills.

Position
Since 2009 he is managing international projects in connection with the impact of climate change on water quality as well as aftercare of solid waste landfills.
Marco Ritzkowski is Managing Director of the International Waste Working Group (IWWG) since 2011 and leader of the IWWG Task Group on Landfill Aeration since 2008. Since 2016 he holds a Guest Professorship at Perm National Research Polytechnic University (Russia) and since 2018 at Polytech Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia).
Professional development
1998 - 2008  Researcher at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Institute of Environmental
Technology and Energy Economics (Formerly Institute of Waste Resources Management)
2008 - date  Project manager at TuTech Innovation GmbH
Projects (national / international)
1999 - 2007 BMBF R&D-Project ?Accelerated aerobic in situ stabilisation of the old Kuhstedt landfill
for costs and aftercare minimisation“
2000 - 2002 FP5: EU-INCO-Copernicus project ?Pre-Treatment and Safe Disposal of Municipal Solid
Waste and Waste Water Sludge for Environmental Protection – PSDWSEP”
2001 Development, organisation and conduction of an advanced trainings course
Fundamentals of Waste Management – Waste Management Concept for the City of
Amman“ in Amman, Jordan
2005 - 2008 FP6: EU-INCO project ?Management of environmental risks associated with landfills in
seismically active regions in the New Independent States (NIS) of Central Asia –
NISMIST”
2007 - 2008 R&D project: Behavior of alkaline batteries under simulated landfill conditions
2009 - 2012 EU INTERREG IVB North Sea Region Program: Impact of Climate Change on the quality
of urban and coastal waters (Diffuse Pollution) - DiPol
2012 - date R&D project: Improvement of the long term emission behavior of the Teuftal landfill
(CH)
Professional functions and societies
1999 - 2008 Member of the examination board "Civil Engineering and Environmental Technology" at the Hamburg University of Technology
1999 - 2005 Member of the BWK (Bund der Ingenieure für Wasserwirtschaft, Abfallwirtschaft und Kulturbau e.V.) working group ?Residual Waste Tretament“
2004 - date Leader of the IWWG (International Waste Working Group) Task Group “Landfill Aeration“
2008 - date Assistant Professor at the TUHH (Courses: Biological waste treatment & Landfilling,
Contaminated sites & Landfilling)
2008 - date Member of the Scientific Advisory Pannel of the IWWG
2009 - date Consultant for several new CDM methodologies related to landfill aeration and climate
protection (on request of UNFCCC)
2010 - 2018 Editorial Board member of the journal Waste Management
2018 - date Associate Editor of the Journal Detritus