Instructors and speakers of our ATB Academy

• Civil Engineering – Construction degree (Dipl.-Ing) in 1979
• Different working stations as qualified civil engineer
• Since August 1989 working amongst others in the domain of small and small scale wastewater treatment plants as executive assistant, technical general manager, technical head of special projects and general manager in two prefabricated concrete component companies
• Since May 2002 head of export division of ATB WATER GmbH, a specialist for development and production of small and small scale wastewater treatment plants
• Since November 2011 member of the German DIN standards committee water engineering “Small wastewater treatment systems”, the German mirror committee for the European standard EN 12566
• Member of the European working group CEN TC 165 WG 41 “Small wastewater treatment systems < 50 PE”

• Degree in biotechnology and process engineering at TUHH (Dipl.-Ing.) May 2010
• Research assistant at Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management (ISAH) 2010–2016
• Doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) in the field of productionintegrated environmental protection (2016) at Leibniz University Hannover
• Since 2017 head of engineering company Ingenieurbüro Dr. Breitenkamp: young start-up focused on consulting in improvement of resource efficiency
• Since 2021 member and deputy speaker of the new DWA working group KEK 7-7 focused on energy and resource efficiency of sewage sludge recycling including phosphorus recovery

• Bachelor and Master of Science in Biology (Experimental Ecology)
• PhD in Soil Science (Dr. rer nat.) in 2011
• Post-Doc at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in the joint research Project IWAS: ‘International Water Research Alliance Saxony’  and CARBOWERT: ‘Thermochemical Sludge Treatment - An Innovative Approach for Sustainable Sanitation’
• Director of the Implementation Office NICE at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and coordination of the interministerial National Committee for Effective Integrated Wastewater Management in Amman, Jordan
• Senior Scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in the joint research Project ‘SARS-CoV2 Tracking in Wastewater’ and ‘LeipzigerBlaugrün’

• 1986 Graduation “Diplom-Ingenieur” Chemical Engineering, TU Clausthal (very good)
• 1986-1987 Technical Assistant, Oeko-Systeme GmbH, Breitscheid, Germany
• 1987-1991 Research Engineer and Dechema Scholar, Technical University of Clausthal
• 1990 Ph. D. with Prof. Vogelpohl, TU Clausthal (with honors)
• 1991-2004 Head of the Water Treatment Group, TU Clausthal
• Since 2000 Consultant, TECHNOCON GmbH, Clausthal, Germany
• 1991-2004 Assistant Professor, TU Clausthal
• 1999-2004 Lecturer (official title: Akademischer Rat, Akademischer Oberrat) TU Clausthal
• Since 2004 Professor and head of the Environmental Process Engineering Chair, Department of Environmental Technology, Technische Universität Berlin
• 2013-2017 Honorary Professor, Tongji University Shanghai, China
• Since 2022 Professor at Nanjing University of Technology, China
• Publications > 85 refereed
  • co-editor of 4 IWA-WST issues and co-inventor of 7 patents
• Awards:
  • IWA Resource Recovery Cluster Award 2019
  • BMBF German-African Innovation Incentive Award 2020
  • Willy-Hager Medaille 2022
• Honorary:
  • Elected member of the IWA expert group "Advanced Oxidation Processes"
  • Elected vice-chair of the PROCESSNET GVC/Dechema expert group "Industrial Water"
  • Elected vice-president of MARIS Network Berlin-Brandenburg
  • Elected member of the executive board of German Water Partnership

• B.Sc. in Biochemical in 2000
• Different working stations as Biochemist like Nicholas Piramal.
• Full time Director in Shubham Inc. since 2006, a Water and Wastewater Treatment Company focusing area of Water, Sewage & industrial Effluent.
• The most enlightened person in the company handling Marketing and Design departments. A true explorer of current and future possibilities in water & wastewater sectors, he is also a friend, philosopher and guide to foster the skills and enthusiasm of the young Team Shubham.
• Has always been passionate about finding smart ways to save water. With Environmental Engineering close to his heart, he drives and enables creativity and innovation across all streams of engineering and technology.
• His company designed, supplied & commissioned more than 600 Water Treatment Plant & Sewage Treatment Plants having capacity of 0.1 MLD to 10 MLD.
• He is part of various organisations like Indian Plumbing Association (IPA), Indian Green Building council (IGBC), Fire Safety Association (FSAI), Gujarat Chamber of Commerce (GCCI).

• Environmental Engineer (Dipl.-Ing.)
• 27 years of experience in the water & sanitation sector, with a focus on Asia, Africa and Middle East
• Comprehensive working experience with international donors and development banks (GIZ, KfW, Asian Development Bank, Worldbank), as well as private companies from the water sector
• Leading teams of more than 30 staff and certified GIZ "Capacity Works" advisor
• Comprehensive experience on wastewater management and decentralized wastewater treatment, as well as capacity building in general (public utilities and ministries)
• Comprehensive experiences on business development, sales and PPP approaches
• Chairman of Water Solutions International e.V. (NGO)
• Chairman of Water Solutions South-East Asia Co. ltd.
• Countries of work experience: China, Thailand, Jordan, Vietnam, Kenya, Yemen, Austria, UAE, Turkey, Poland, Norway, India, Zambia, Germany

Freelancing Senior Consultant
PhD in 2003: “Hydrological Analysis of Agricultural Water Availability in a Semi-arid Terraced Catchment in Yemen”.
Since then work with development focus on:  

• Interlinked supply risks: The Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus
• Climate change adaptation and vulnerability analysis
• Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM)
• Organisational Development/Moderation
   

Work with BGR, GIZ, freelancing since 2018

• In Germany the recognition of the completed university studies as Irrigation Engineer (IR) took place in 2008
• Order as publicly appointed and sworn expert of the Federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate 2008
• Full focus on digitalized, completely automated and sustainable systems for water supply in agriculture with the foundation of the planning and expert office irriport e.K. 2011
• Change of the corporate form to irriport GmbH in March 2020
• Since then acting in Germany as well as worldwide
• In the form of projects, feasibility studies, funding and research projects
• For more than 10 years successful and practical irrigation concepts
• Active involvement in the German Water Partnership (GWP) and the develoPPP funding program in cooperation with GIZ, and others

• Biology-Degree (Dipl.-Biol.) 1976​

• Microbiologist (Dipl.-Biol.) 1976

• Up to 1/1980 scientific collaborator at RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Microbiology (Prof. Dr. C.C. Emeis)
  2/1980 till 4/2013 scientific collaborator at RWTH Aachen University, Institute of civil engineering

• Working for different research projects as well as teaching at the university

• Specialized on decentralized wastewater treatment, water reuse, optimization of treatment processes, P-elimination

• Teaching and consulting projects in Indonesia, Algeria, Morocco, Belgium, Austria

• Member and chair of different German and European standardisation committees ( CEN TC165, WG50 water reuse,  small wastewater treatment plants)

• Civil Engineering – Construction degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in 2007​
• Since September 2007 “Testing Engineer” for decentralized wastewater treatment building products at PIA GmbH - Prüfinstitut für Abwassertechnik
• Specialized in structural behaviour, hydraulic efficiency tests, range and design verifications
• Since September 2012 “Head of Material Testing” of PIA GmbH. Specialized in “reaction to fire” tests and “dangerous substances in building products” among others
• Since 2016 responsible for section “Decentralized Stormwater Treatment” and “Light Liquid Separators” at PIA GmbH​
• Since 2018 member of the German DIN standards committee water engineering “Small wastewater treatment systems”, the German mirror committee for the European standard EN 12566​
• Member of the European working group CEN TC 165 WG 41 “Small wastewater treatment systems < 50 PE”​

• First state exam (Ref. iur.) funded by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, University of Heidelberg and University of Florence July 2018
• Master of Laws (Environmental and Energy Law) Best degree of the class University of Kassel August 2021
• Since October 2019 Research Associate, University of Kassel, Chair of Public Law, Public International Law, European and Environmental Law Prof. Dr. Silke R. Laskowski
• Since June 2022 PhD student at the University of Kassel, European and national Nature Law

• Graduate engineer for land management and environmental protection – graduated December 1998 (Dipl.-Ing.)
• Various work stations and family time
• Since November 2006 active in the field of small wastewater treatment plants as technical assistant to the head of the test department “waste water treatment" and test engineer at PIA GmbH
• Since 2014 additionally responsible for the area of constructed wetlands, nature based systems and treatment plants in flexible sheets
• Since June 2018, head of "European testing – Area wastewater treatment“
• Since April 2021, head of "European testing”
• Since June 2022 in the German DIN standards committee water engineering “Small wastewater treatment systems”