Aissa Rechlin
Dr. rer. nat. (Geosciences)
Co-Coordinator Resource Conservation & Circular Economy
Senior Fellow
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Dr Aissa Rechlin is a Senior Fellow with a background in geosciences working on resource conservation at Ecologic Institute. Her work focuses on resource use and efficiency in the circular economy, environmental governance and transformation processes. She works in English, German and Spanish.
Dr Aissa Rechlin is leading several projects, including two UBA-funded projects on the topics of 'Resource efficiency and natural resources in an international context' and 'Analysis and evaluation of certification systems for recycled plastics'. In the first project, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUV) and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) are being supported in the evaluation of current studies by international organisations, in particular the UN International Resource Panel. In the second project, a comprehensive research, analysis and evaluation of certification systems for recycled plastics is being carried out to enable a simple and quick comparison. Additionally, Dr Rechlin is leading the project 'Conception and planning of digital solutions to promote sustainable consumption for a circular economy' to help shape consumption patterns in a sustainable and future-oriented way and to promote the closing of economic cycles. Dr Rechlin is also responsible for Ecologic Institute's contribution to the TransIS project 'Sustainable development of infrastructures in regions undergoing structural change'. This project is investigating in the Rhenish, Central German and Lusatian mining areas which impulses an infrastructure design orientated towards sustainability criteria and innovative networking of regional infrastructures can provide for a socio-ecological structural change for sustainable regional development.
Prior to joining Ecologic Institute, Dr Rechlin gained experience as a project coordinator and team leader at Projekt-Consult GmbH (2015-2022). The company specialises in consulting projects on responsible mining and sourcing of minerals worldwide. She has also worked as a technology transfer consultant at the Technische Universität Berlin (2013-2014) and the Universität Hamburg (2015), and as a researcher at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam (2007-2012).
Dr. Aissa Rechlin holds a PhD in Geosciences from the Freie Universität Berlin and a Diploma (equal to master's degree) in Geology-Paleontology from Universität Hamburg.