Klaus Ockenfeld

Manager Environment & Health

Cologne Bonn Region

About

Familiar with a broad range of sectors I am driven by gaining success in bridging contradictory demands towards a sustainable coexistance of free enterprise, stable ecosystems and a healthy socioeconomy. Scientist with experience in agriculture production methods, cargo logistics management, river basin management, drinking water (sources, production, supply, materials), metallic materials R & D, EHS legislation (development and implementation). Specialties: Science project management, gremia and conference management, round-table organization at interface industry-regulator-academia, communication along value chains, trouble-shooting

Experience

  • Kupferverband e.V. (Full-time · 21 yrs 6 mos)
    • Managing Director Science & Technology
      Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • General Manager R & D
      Nov 2023 - May 2024 · 7 mos

      1. Global: collaborations R&D bio-medical role of copper in environment & health (universities / industry / regulatory bodies) 2. Europe: R&D / approval - copper alloys in drinking water applications / antimicrobial copper alloys application in the in-house non-wet environment

    • Consultant Water Sciences & Drinking Water Applications bei Deutsches Kupferinstitut Berufsverband
      2005 - Oct 2023 · 18 yrs 10 mos

  • Postdoc Position at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
    2000 - 2005 · 5 yrs

    River ELBE Research: 1. sinc and source functions of groyne fields regarding chemical and biological water parameters as well as phytoplancton compositions and their oxygen turnover rates 2. flood reserach after the 2002 Elbe-flood - e.g . origin and fate of metalic and non-metalic chemical substances

  • PhD-Student at Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
    1996 - 2000 · 4 yrs

    River SPREE Research: 1. influence of coal mining activities in the river catchment on water quality and quantity along the river 2. influence of water flow parameters on planctonic turnover processes and the river´s oxygen balance