Daniela Thrän is a graduate Diplom-Engineer for
environmental technologies from the Technical University of Berlin and did her
PhD at the University of Weimar. Since 2011, she has held the professorial chair
of bioenergy systems at the Institute for Infrastructure and Resources
Management, University of Leipzig. Further, she is responsible for the
coordination and management of national and international research projects for
governmental, industrial, and non-governmental organizations in her leadership
role as head of the Department of Bioenergy Systems at DBFZ and the Department of
Bioenergy at UFZ. Her work focuses on resource analysis on biomass, standardization
of solid biofuels, assessment of biomass technologies and trade, sustainability
aspects and system integration of biomass and bioenergy, and development of
market implementation strategies and support schemes for bioenergy. Furthermore,
she is a member of working groups at ISO, CEN, VDI, DIN, and the European
technology platform for biofuels. She has a long-term work experience with over
100 publications in the biomass field.
