The Sustainable Engineering and Management group uses knowledge from engineering and business disciplines to build on several topics which include resource management, sustainable product development, material and energy management and circular economies. Our understanding of these subjects allow us to develop new business models in areas like electromobility and environmental management.
Central our research and teaching is system and networked thinking. Here, various methods and instruments are applied, which range from risk, criticality, and efficiency analysis, material flow balances, design for recycling, life cycle assessments, system-dynamic simulation, to scenario technology. At the same time, the SEM group works in cooperation with other universities and companies on (research) projects to facilitate knowledge transfer between partners, the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences and its students.
„Our motivation is to improve the sustainability of products and processes along with developing new models that contribute to more sustainable businesses.“Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandra Krommes
Sandra Krommes
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Since 2013, Sandra Krommes has been a professor of resource management at the University of Applied Science Rosenheim while also leading the Sustainable Engineering and Management working group. She has more than 14 years of experience in the automobile industry in several management positions at BMW AG. There, she was responsible for BMW’s corporate strategy for the product-related environmental requirements in addition to electromobility pre-series projects and the development of business models for electromobility.
Dr. Kommes studied Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin, where she also earned a doctoral degree in waste and recycling policy. Dr. Krommes was also trained in management in the food industry through the Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie (VWA) in Bochum.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandra Krommes is also:
- a mentor for the Max-Weber-Program for the state of Bavaria
- a member in the BayWISS Verbundpromotionskolleg for the „Resource efficiency and Materials“ group
- the chair of the WIRO alumni club for the Industrial Engineering department at the University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim
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Klaus Wallner
Prof. Dr.
Since 2015, Klaus Wallner holds the Chair of Controlling, Investment Accounting and Financing at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim. Since 2007, he has been involved in corporate environmental economics, in particular the collection, assessment, management and reporting of environmental information in the area of EU emissions trading and climate protection projects.
Klaus Wallner completed his training as a banker, studied business administration at the Catholic University of Eichstätt Ingolstadt and at the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla (Mexico). He completed his PhD at the Technical University of Munich in the field of Environmental Economics for the financial evaluation of climate protection projects.
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Rosina Rieder
M.B.A. and Eng.
Research Assisstant
Rosina Rieder has been working as a research assistant in resource efficiency with the Research and Development department at the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences since 2014. Rosina is also a doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where her dissertation focuses on resource criticality in the building sector. Previously, Rosina worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics, where she was involved in transportation, mobility, and environmental research projects.
Rosina earned her Master’s degree in Engineering and Business Administration from the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences in 2012. She also has a Diplom in Interior Construction.
To learn more about Rosina’s dissertation on resource criticality in the building sector, click here.
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Florian Tomaschko
M.B.A. and Eng.
Research Assisstant
Florian Tomaschko has been involved as a research assistant in the field of Sustainable Engineering and Management since 2017. He is currently researching in the field of resource efficiency and is active in teaching. Currently, he is aiming for a doctorate in the field of resource efficiency through digitization. At the same time, he works as a lecturer (cost and performance accounting / production processes) at Campus Burghausen.
Florian Tomaschko completed a technical vocational training and then he began studying industrial engineering, he graduated with the M.B.A. and Eng.
To learn more about Florian’s dissertation, click here.
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Katja Zier
Dr., Dipl.-Chem.
Research Assisstant
Katja Zier has been working as a research assistant in research and development at the Rosenheim University of Technology since March 2020. She is currently researching the economic efficiency analysis and life cycle assessment of production processes in the field of circular economy. The use of recyclates for product manufacture motivates them to work in the field of Sustainable Engineering and Management (SEM).
Katja Zier studied chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden and received her PhD in 2014 in the field of inorganic materials and electrochemistry. She carried out the development of new types of energy storage materials at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden. From September 2015, she worked as a postdoc in the field of non-destructive material testing on the further development of ultrasound and noise emission test methods, before leading the working group on non-destructive testing at the TU Munich from July 2018 to March 2020.
An overview of the scientific publications by Katja Zier (née Pinkert) can be found here.
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Kevin Annan
cand. Ba. of Eng
Assisstant
Kevin Annan has been demanding the team since 2019 as an employee in the area of resource efficiency through digitization. Different institutions deal with the digitization of existing systems at the process level.
Kevin Annan has been pursuing a Bachelor of Engineering degree in industrial engineering since 2016. Before that, he completed a technical apprenticeship as an electronics technician for devices and systems.
Simon Forster
cand. of M.Eng / Ba. of Eng
Assisstant
Since 2020 Simon Forster supports the team as a Research Assistant. He is currently enrolled in the Industral Engineering Master´s Degree Program at TH Rosenheim and supports the project resource efficiency and digitalization.
His Bachelor´s Degree he accomplished in Industrial Engineering in Leipzig with focus on production and energy engineering.
Johannes Napieralla
cand. Ba. of Eng
Assisstant
Johannes Napieralla is supporting the team since march 2020. He participates at the research and development to create a concept for the increase of resource efficiency by digitalization. In this he is responsible for the coordination with external companies.
He finished his apprenticeship as a car mechanic at BMW Niederlassung Munich in 2017. Since then he has been aiming for his graduation in industrial engineering at the University of Rosenheim.
Thimo Bauer
cand. Ba. of Eng
Assisstant
Thimo Bauer has been a research assistant in the field of Sustainable Engineering and Management since April 2020. He develops a solution for digital data acquisition, storage, processing and analysis in the context of Industry 4.0 by using digital production data.
Mr. Bauer is expected to finish his bachelor’s degree in business informatics at the Rosenheim University of Technology in late 2020. Afterwards, Mr. Bauer wants to acquire a master’s degree in the Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics (AIDA) course at the Rosenheim University of Technology.