When I was a teenager I had many considerations in relation to sustainable energy, as I found our dependence on polluting energy and non-democratic regimes hard to accept. That led me to study physics in the hope of contributing to a sustainable replacement of conventional black energy sources.

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My studies ended up with a PhD in surface physics and quantum mechanics and a minor in computer science. With that in the luggage I left the academics while I was post-doc. Being curious about a professional life in the tech industry I wanted to check that out.

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The next decade I spent in various R&D positions spanning from Software Engineer via Systems Engineer to Head of Department. During that period I had not forgotten my considerations about sustainable energy, but they were not part of my professional life.

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In 2007 I changed all that. Essentially, I made a strategic decision about my work life: It should have the higher purpose to help the breakthrough of renewable energy. So for four years I worked within development of wind turbines. Then I moved on to the utility sector as head of an R&D section working with wave, wind, hydro and solar power. During that five-year period it was very rewarding to experience, how wind and solar power became so cheap that they effectively outperform the fossil energy sources oil, coal and gas.

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In recent years, additional challenges regarding sustainability have caught my attention. Of course, I have not been totally ignorant to the concept of circular economy earlier on. But my interest intensified when I started to look into the overall situation for future human prospering on planet Earth. The conclusion is crystal clear: We simply need to abandon our catastrophic linear economy. The seriousness of the situation is eye-opening and calls for action. Consequently, I resigned from my job to found Circ.eco.