The Institute

About us

The Institute for Sustainable Water Systems focuses on applied research and development in the key areas of sponge city, sustainability, photonics and food production.

Foundation

The Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences (inwa) was founded in March 2023 as part of the subject-related division of its predecessor, the Institute for Water and Energy Management (iwe). As a result of the strong development of the two main research areas of water and energy, it was useful to make these two areas independent in view of the research challenges posed by climate change, the energy crisis and increasing extreme weather events.

Our philosophy

inwa focuses on the initiation and implementation of application-oriented research and innovation development for partners from industry and the municipal sector. In addition to the specialist areas of sponge city, photonics, food production and project management, sustainability and digitalisation are increasingly becoming research topics in their own right. At the same time, they are part of many research activities as a cross-sectional discipline. The transfer of knowledge from research results into practice is becoming increasingly important as a further area of activity. This involves not only analysing the state of research in such a way that the results can be used by users in practice. In addition, special methods are being developed to make the transfer of knowledge more practice-orientated and to effectively support small and medium-sized enterprises and local authorities in particular in coping with increasingly complex challenges. 

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Organisation

The inwa is managed by an institute management consisting of all research group leaders. One member of the institute management takes on the role of spokesperson for the external presentation of inwa and represents the organisation of the institute.

Institute Director and Research Group Leader:Prof Günter Müller-Czygan.

Prof Günter Müller-Czygan

Institute Director; Research Group Leader

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Prof Dr Manuela Wimmer. Research group leader in the area of sustainability and project management in water management.

Prof Dr Manuela Wimmer

Deputy Head of Institute; Research Group Leader

Sustainability and project management in water management (NaPro)

Portrait of Dr Harvey Harbach, research group leader for resource-efficient food production in integrated aquaculture at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Dr Harvey Harbach

Research group leader

Resource-efficient food production in integrated aquaculture (ReLe)

Portrait of Prof Dr Tobias Schnabel, research group leader for photonics and water at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Prof. Dr Tobias Schnabel

Research group leader

Photonics and water (PhoWa)

Portrait of Christian Wagner, Institute and Research Coordinator at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Christian Wagner

Public relations work of the institute

Sustainability and project management in water management (NaPro)

Portrait of Dr Julia Frank, Institute and Research Coordinator at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Dr Julia Frank

Institute and research coordination

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Professors/research group leaders

Institute Director and Research Group Leader:Prof Günter Müller-Czygan.

Prof Günter Müller-Czygan

Research group leader

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Prof Dr Manuela Wimmer. Research group leader in the area of sustainability and project management in water management.

Prof Dr Manuela Wimmer

Research Group Leader

Sustainability and project management in water management (NaPro)

Portrait of Dr Harvey Harbach, research group leader for resource-efficient food production in integrated aquaculture at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Dr Harvey Harbach

Research group leader

Resource-efficient food production in integrated aquaculture (ReLe)

Portrait of Prof Dr Tobias Schnabel, research group leader for photonics and water at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Prof. Dr Tobias Schnabel

Research group leader

Photonics and water (PhoWa)

Coordination and assistance

Portrait of Dr Julia Frank, Institute and Research Coordinator at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Dr Julia Frank

Institute and research coordination
Portrait of Christian Wagner, Institute and Research Coordinator at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Christian Wagner

Public relations work of the institute
Portrait of Martina Monien-Zeh, assistant at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Martina Monien-Zeh

Assistance

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Institute Director and Research Group Leader:Prof Günter Müller-Czygan.

Prof Günter Müller-Czygan

Research group leader

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Portrait of Andreas Aicher.

Andreas Aicher

Research assistant

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Viktoriya Tarasyuk, Ph.D

Research assistant

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Laura Lang

Technical employee

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Pavel Timofeev

Research assistant

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Michael Schmidt

Research assistant

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Robert-Peter Kuhn

Research assistant

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Jasmin Rose Mundackal

Research assistants

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Paola Acosta Carrascal

Research assistant

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Harikrishnan Thanipparambu Narayanan Kutty

Research assistant

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Imam Burhani

Research assistant

Water infrastructure and digitalisation (DiWa)

Sustainability and project management in water management (NaPro)

Prof Dr Manuela Wimmer. Research group leader in the area of sustainability and project management in water management.

Prof Dr Manuela Wimmer

Research Group Leader

Sustainability and project management in water management (NaPro)

Portrait of Christian Wagner, Institute and Research Coordinator at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Christian Wagner

Research assistant

Sustainability and project management in water management (NaPro)

Raphael Maier

Research assistant

Sustainability and project management in water management (NaPro)

Anja Grabmeier

Research assistant

Sustainability and project management in water management (NaPro)

Resource-efficient food production in integrated aquaculture (ReLe)

Portrait of Dr Harvey Harbach, research group leader for resource-efficient food production in integrated aquaculture at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Dr Harvey Harbach

Research group leader

Resource-efficient food production in integrated aquaculture (ReLe)

Lena Bächer

Research assistant

Resource-efficient food production in integrated aquaculture (ReLe)

Nirupama Nair

Research assistant

Resource-efficient food production in integrated aquaculture (ReLe)

Thi Hanh Vu

Research assistant

Resource-efficient food production in integrated aquaculture (ReLe)

Photonics and water (PhoWa)

Portrait of Prof Dr Tobias Schnabel, research group leader for photonics and water at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

Prof. Dr Tobias Schnabel

Research group leader

Photonics and water (PhoWa)

Simon Mehling

Research assistant

Photonics and water (PhoWa)

Axel Wolfram

Research assistant

Photonics and water (PhoWa)

Viktor Gross

Research assistant

Photonics and water (PhoWa)

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Address

Institute for Sustainable Water Systems
Alfons-Goppel-Platz 1
95028 Hof

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