Ao. Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Wolfgang Wimmer

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Wolfgang Wimmer holds since 2002 a professorship at the TU Wien in Engineering Design and ECODESIGN. Wolfgang Wimmer is the author of two books on ECODESIGN. Over the last 20 years Wolfgang Wimmer has been leading many ECODESIGN projects with leading companies such as Philips Austria, Steelcase Inc., Siemens Transportation among others.

 

Email: wolfgang.wimmer@tuwien.ac.at Phone: +43 1 58801 30744

Dr. Rainer Pamminger

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Since 2002 Rainer Pamminger is researcher at the TU Wien in the area of sustainable product design and energy efficiency. He is leading different national and EU funded projects focusing mainly on the development and application of tools and methods for environmental assessment of products and services (e.g. ECODESIGN PILOT), for process improvement (e.g. energy efficient cooling systems) and environmental communication (e.g. energy efficiency label for plastic processing machines) within industry areas like electronics, industrial machines, railway, automotive, furniture, construction, etc.
Dr. Rainer Pammiger studied Mechanical Engineering at the Vienna Technical University (VUT) and the University of Salford (UK). He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering he concentrated his work on the integration of environmental aspects into the product development process for tramways.
Since 2011 he is part of the "ECODESIGN company engineering & management consultancy GmbH",  and responsible for project aquise and for the conception and development of tools that integrate environmental aspects on product development processes of various companies.
Additionally he is External Expert for the European Commission to undertake proposal evaluations in the topic of Energy Efficiency within Horizon2020.

 

Email: rainer.pamminger@tuwien.ac.at Phone: +43 1 58801 30753

DI Philipp Feuchter

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Philipp Feuchter studied environmental engineering at the Montanuniversität Leoben, specializing in waste recovery technology and waste management. He also completed a second master’s degree in ecodesign at the Wieselburg campus. He spent one semester studying at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. After graduating, he worked for a year and a half at a service company in the circular economy sector and has been employed at the Institute of Design Sciences in the ECODESIGN research group since mid-2022.

Philipp Feuchter’s research focuses on life cycle assessment (LCA), ecodesign, and the circular economy for electronic products.

 

E-Mail: philipp.feuchter@tuwien.ac.at Telefon: +43 1 58801 30758

Kylian Keimel, BSc

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Kylian Keimel studied mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) and Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ). After completing his bachelor's thesis on the dynamics of microplastics in the field of fluid mechanics, he became interested in ecodesign and circular economy. Since 2025, he supports the ECODESIGN team, especially in modeling the global warming potential of various products. 

In addition to this professional activity at TU Wien, Kylian Keimel is entrepreneurially engaged in the establishment of circular materials in the field of goods manufacturing with the project RePlace.  

E-Mail: kylian.keimel@tuwien.ac.at