Draft:Helmut Rechberger

Helmut Rechberger (born February 21, 1968 in Linz, Upper Austria) is an Austrian scientist and university professor for resource management at the Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on the analysis, evaluation and design of the anthropogenic metabolism.

Education and professional career
Helmut Rechberger studied process engineering at the Vienna University of Technology and then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Water Quality and Waste Management at the same university. During this time, under the supervision of Prof. Paul H. Brunner, he wrote his dissertation on the evaluation of material balances in waste management, in which he adapted the concept of entropy from information theory and made it applicable to material balances. After completing his doctorate, he spent a research year at Yale University with Prof. Tom Graedel, known as the father of industrial ecology. In 2001, he moved to ETH Zurich, where he worked as a senior assistant to Prof. Peter Baccini at the Chair of Materials Management and Waste Disposal Technology. In 2003, Rechberger accepted a call to the Vienna University of Technology for the world's first professorship for resource management. Since 2010, he has headed the Waste and Resource Management research area at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and, since 2020, the Institute of Water Quality and Resource Management.

Awards

 * 2022: Honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp

Publications

 * All publications

Weblinks

 * Helmut Rechberger on Website of TU Vienna
 * Honarary doctorate for Helmut Rechberger