Dr. Ulf Stein is a Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute in Berlin, where he coordinates the institute’s water activities. He joined Ecologic Institute in 2011 and has more than 10 years of professional experience in academic research and consulting services. His work focuses on the evaluation and enhancement of the European Union’s (EU) and German water policies and the sustainable management of water resources. His work also focuses on the assessment of green infrastructure (GI), nature-based solutions (NBS), ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation (EbA).
Dr.Ulf Stein is currently researching urban blue green infrastructure and nature-based solutions, their delivery of ecosystem services, and the role of policy frameworks as an enabling or hindering factor in this context. These themes are being addressed within the BiodivERsA and JPI Water project “Nature’s Integration in Cities Hydrologies, Ecologies and Societies” (NICHES) and in the BMBF funded project “Adaptation of Stormwater Management to Extreme Weather Events” (AMAREX)
Dr. Ulf Stein has managed and participated in more than 20 projects including large-scale research projects for various European and national institutions. In addition, he was for several years a member of the European Topic Centre on Inland Coastal and Marine waters (ETC-1CM) and European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC-BD)