Prof. Dr.-Ing Rainer Stegmann - Nanyang Technological University

Prof. Dr.-Ing Rainer Stegmann
Head of Institute of WasteResourcesManagement
Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany (retired)
Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Director, Residues and Resource Reclamation Centre, R3C, NTU
Prof. Dr.-Ing Rainer Stegmann is a retired Professor from the Hamburg University of
Technology in Hamburg, Germany and currently a Visiting Professor at the Nanyang
Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and Director of the Residues and Resource
Reclamation Centre (R3C) at NTU.
He holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University in
Braunschweig, Germany, where he also obtained his doctorate (Dr.- Ing.) degree. In 1982 he
became Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science at the Hamburg University of
Technology, Germany and since 1991 he was Head of the newly founded Institute of Waste
Management (later Institute for WasteResourceManagement). Together with colleagues he
holds two patents.
Under Prof Stegmann`s guidance 16 Promotions to Dr.-Ing. (similar to a PhD) and 1
Habilitation were granted. He conducted for several years a solid waste course at the
Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. He was honored as Visiting Professor from
the Institute of Technologies and Applied Science in Havanna, Kuba in 2006. He received the
award for “a Waste to Life” at the SARDINIA Symposium in 2009.
Prof. Stegmann coordinated 5 research centers and was involved in more than 60 research
projects in the time between 1982 and 2008, where funding was provided by national public
bodies, the European Union and several national and international companies as i.e. Procter
and Gamble, Norsk Hydro and Mercedes Benz.
He co-edited 7 books and published more than 300 papers. He is member of the editorial
board of several international scientific journals. Prof. Stegmann is co-organizer of three
international (i.e. SARDINIA, International Waste and Landfill Symposium) and four national

Solid Waste Symposia and participated in several workshops i.e. in Jordan, Mexico, Brazil,
USA, Russia, Australia and Italy.
Prof. Stegmann is one of the founding members and chairman of the international solid
waste organization “IWWG, International Waste Working Group”. He is member of the
managing board of ORBIT and is/was also member of several other national and
international organizations.
Prof Stegmann was scientific advisor for national and international research institutions and
companies, i.e. Shanks, UK, and was expert witness in several national and international
lawsuits.
Prof. Stegmann is partner in the “Consultancy for Waste Management, Prof. Stegmann and
Partner” in Hamburg, Germany. He did consultancy in Germany and in several countries such
as South Korea, Italy, Spain, France, England, Australia, Switzerland and Austria.