Alexandra Pehlken studied Mining and Mineral Processing at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. She completed her PhD at the Faculty of Mining in 2002. Her expertise lies in secondary resource management and the cascade use of materials, and its impact on life-cycle performance. As well as being an expert in recycling, she is also involved in renewable energy. Following her PhD, she was awarded a scholarship from Germany to work for two years (2004–2005) at the Materials Technology Laboratory (MTL) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) in Ottawa, Canada. She is currently head of the Cascade Use research group at Carl von Ossietzky University. Her current research focuses on the assessment of sustainable resource management and, in addition, the assessment of renewable energies, with a strong emphasis on biomass and wind energy. She is a lecturer in bioenergy for the international master’s programme “Postgraduate Programme in Renewable Energy (PPRE)” at the University of Oldenburg. Since October 2015, she has also been head of the Steinbeis Transfer Centre for Resources.

Further information is available on her Cascade Use website:

https://uol.de/en/school2/research/cascade-use/

See my full CV under my CCU profile.

https://uol.de/en/school2/research/cascade-use/about-us/alexandra-pehlken/