Sustainable Products & Material Flows
Clara Löw
Senior Researcher
Special Expertise
Main areas of research: Circular Economy and Global Value Chains
Topics:
- Circular Economy & Product Policy: National, european and international approaches and policy instruments
- Materials, chemicals and pollutants at the interface of products and waste
- Plastics and textiles
Methods:
- Expert interviews
- SWOT analyses
- Substance evaluation
Key Projects
- Scientific support for the stakeholder process and development of the German National Circular Economy Strategy (NKWS)
- The new Ecodesign Regulation: Requirements for the ecodesign of textiles and the possible transfer to an ecodesign label
- Strategic and technical advice on the circular economy and fibres within the framework of the EU Textile Strategy
- CCICED Scoping Study Circular Economy in the context of the Sino-German Environment Partnership
- Approaches to avoid single-use plastics and promote recycled content in plastics in the ASEAN region
- Model Germany Circular Economy: Modelling and Blueprint for a Circular Economy in Germany
Professional Training and Career
- Since 2020: Researcher at Öko-Institut, Sustainable Products & Material Flows Division
- Since 2019: Research Assistant at Öko-Institut, Sustainable Products & Material Flows Division
- 2017-2019: Project Manager of a BMZ-founded exchange project on the UN Sustainable Development Goals with young adults from Germany and Rwanda
- 2016/7: Internships at the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) and Environmental Unit of the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU, Brussels; focus: circular economy and chemicals policy
- 2016-2019: Master of Science in Environmental Science, Goethe University Frankfurt
- 2012-2016: Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, University of Freiburg
Language Skills
English, French
Contact
Clara Löw
- Sustainable Products & Material Flows
- Senior Researcher
- Freiburg
- +49 761 45295-276