Christian Kabbe

Project manager Berlin Centre of Competence for Water,co-founder of the ESPP and DPP

Christian started his professional career as head of laboratory and vice production manager in the chemical industry in 2003. He joined the wastewater management and monitoring department of the German EPA in 2008 where he promoted the development of a multisectoral national strategy for sustainable P management.

In 2011 he moved to the Berlin Centre of Competence for Water as program manager for resource recovery from waste (water) and coordinated the EU project www.p-rex.eu (2012-2015) dedicated to demonstration and assessment of P recovery and recycling routes. He continues the know-how transfer into practice and builds cross-sectoral bridges between nutrient recovery and recycling. Christian is co-founder of the ESPP and DPP and engaged in various European and German working groups and bodies dealing with wastewater and sewage sludge treatment and sustainable nutrient management in a circular economy.