Mark Braun appointed Head of Water Management

Mr. Mark Braun took over as Head of Water Management at FiW on 1 October 2024. As a research scientist, he has already very successfully acquired and worked on extensive collaborative projects in research and development as well as consulting projects in the field of climate adaptation in the Water Management team. We congratulate Mark Braun on his new position and wish him and his team continued success.

Mark Braun studied Environmental Engineering (B. Sc.) and Sustainable Energy Supply (M. Sc.) at RWTH Aachen University and has been working at FiW e. V. since 2017. He has led projects in the fields of digitalisation, climate adaptation and assessment of fees and tariffs, also gaining international experience. Since 2020, he has been responsible for the second topic in the reorganised Water Management and Climate Adaptation department and has fulfilled this role as the network coordinator of the R2K-Klim+ municipal climate adaptation anchor project, among other things. He focuses on the climate signals of flash floods, fluvial flooding, heat and low water and is pursuing his doctoral thesis on the effects of low water on the economy along the river Rhine.

After FiW changed its name to ‘Climate Future’ in 2022, the knowledge gained in R2K-Klim+ was increasingly incorporated into consultancy assignments. Since last year, municipal climate adaptation concepts in NRW in particular have been acquired, while other topics such as the assessment of climate impacts and adaptation measures or urban digital twins are also being pursued.

For Mark Braun, the integrated consideration of the topic of climate adaptation is a particular focus. In future, he wants to deepen internal synergies with the topics of digitalisation, water management and assignments of tariffs and fees and address interface topics such as urban planning and environmental justice even more strongly with the interdisciplinary FiW network.