What a pleasure to now be part of this exciting and motivated team at SLU !!
My home-base is at Sandec – the Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), where I have been working since 1998, first as tenure track researcher then head of department and since 2015 as a member of the Eawag directorate while also continuing my ongoing research. My research interests lie in the interdisciplinary approach of innovating and upgrading infrastructure and services in urban areas of low and middle income countries – with a special focus on solid waste and sanitation. Resource recovery and waste valorization for low and middle-income settings has been on my applied research agenda since many years, leading international programs and projects, publishing scientific articles and book chapters on appropriate technology and enabling environments in low income settings, and serving on many international committees, task forces and juries. My current projects evolve around issues of waste for BSF protein production, plastic waste flows and potential recovery options and more recently looking at the management of disposal diapers and sanitary pads, behavioral change mechanisms for waste segregation as well as supply chain cost modelling.
For more information on my work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UpBXCvoAAAAJ&hl=en
I look forward to inspiring discussions, and exciting new projects at SLU. Contact me at christian.zurbrugg@slu.se