Professor Fröhling works on quantitative approaches for the analysis, assessment, and planning of the circular economy and bioeconomy systems. This covers technologies for recycling and biomass conversion as well as biorefineries, production, and recycling networks, and global material cycles.
Professor Fröhling studied industrial engineering and management at Karlsruhe University. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. for a thesis on material flow-based production planning in the process industries. He built up a mainly third-party-funded research group at Karlsruhe University and obtained his postdoctoral teaching qualification (“Habilitation”) in 2011 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In his habilitation thesis, he worked on resource and energy efficiency in industrial value chains. In 2013 a stay as visiting scholar at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane followed. It was in 2015 when Magnus Fröhling was appointed as Professor of Business Administration, esp. Resource Management at TU Bergakademie Freiberg. In 2018, he joined TUM as Professor of Circular Economy at the TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability.
Magnus Fröhling has co-authored more than 25 peer-reviewed journal articles in international journals of multiple disciplines. Among others, this covers Applied Energy, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Industrial Ecology Journal of Business Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Fuel Processing Technology, and World of Metallurgy. At all of his positions, he has acquired, lead, and worked on numerous third-party funding projects together with other research institutions and industries.
Biotenside Alliance: Together with partners from industry and academia new biotenside value chains are developed. The TUM part covers the techno-economic assessment and optimization of selected routes.
r+TeTra – Technology Transfer Project: Together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe we investigate research projects in the BMBF funding program r+Impuls on industrial resource efficiency regarding their resource efficiency effects.
