Main Responsibilities - Project coordination and management. At present he works in the project called Biorefinery which creates new options of using grass or grass-silage for gaining bulk chemicals (lactic acid) amino acids and bulk grass-fibres. In addition, he also works in the field of gaining essential oils by means of steam distillation.
Career
Michael Mandl graduated in 1995 at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Live Sciences in Vienna (branch: Natural Resources Management). He was awarded a MSc for his master thesis "Braided Rivers´ Characteristics - A field study on the upland braided Ashley River in New Zealand ". Afterwards he spent a year at the Department of Natural Resources Engineering at Lincoln University, South Island, NZ.
After his studies Michael Mandl worked in the technical planning sector, drafting projects in the field of river management and sewerage treatment. He also gained experience as a construction site manager mainly in well drilling and foundation engineering.
In October 1997 he became Resident Engineer in Uganda, Africa. He was a leading technical contributor in the field of maintenances and reinstatement of the water supply of Kampala and managed a 1 mill. US$ development grant of the World Bank.
In October 1998 Michael Mandl became an employee of JOANNEUM RESEARCH and developed a regional research branch in the eastern province of Styria at Hartberg. Since then he has been involved in R&D projects mainly focusing on the development of new techniques utilizing renewable resources in order to create a new impulse for the rural region development.
Since July 2002 he has been working for the Division of Chemical and Technical Plant Utilization at the Institute of Sustainable Techniques and Systems at Hartberg which since July 2010 is the research group of Plant materials sciences and utilisation of the RESOURCES institute. |
