Dr. rer. pol. Mi-Yong Becker

(née Mi-Yong Lee)

Contact / Address

Department Center for Environmental Biotechnology

Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany

Mi-Yong Lee

Curriculum Vitae

Since 03/2019

Department Center for Environmental Biotechnology
Guest Scientist

Since 03/2019

Bochum University of Applied Sciences | Department of Economics
Professor of Sustainability, with focus on economics

2016 - 2018

Department Center for Environmental Biotechnology
Working group leader "Steering and Innovation"

2012 - 2015

Department Center for Environmental Biotechnology
Office manager of the National Implementation Committee for Integrated Wastewater Management in Jordan in the Jordanian Ministry and Irrigation, project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) "Implementation Office Amman“

2010-2011

Department Economics
Work package leader "Stakeholder-Dialogue for Implementing the EU-Water Framework Directive in the South Tisza Basin (Hungary, Romania, Serbia)“, initiation project "STIRD (South Tisza Interregional Development Project) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

2007-2010

Department Economics
Coordination of the research project „The Concept of Stocks as Decision Support for Sustainbility Politics" funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)


Scholarships and Awards

2018

German Environmental Award 2018 of the German Federal Environmental Foundation for
the Development and Political Implementation of the Foundations of a Decentralized Wastewater Management System Solution for Jordan, with Manfred van Afferden, Roland A. Müller and Wolf-Michael Hirschfeld.

2016

UFZ Knowledge Transfer Award for "Excellent Contributions to Developing and Implementing the first intersectoral Framework for Effective Decentralized Wastewater Management in Jordan", with Manfred van Afferden and Roland Müller

National Framework for Effective Decentralized Wastewater Management in Jordan (2016)

Decentralized Wastewater Management Policy (2016)


2014

Award of the Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation for Contributions to the Advancement of the Jordanian Water Sector

2005-2007

Post-Doc scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG), University of Tuebingen, "Global Challenges  - Transnational and Transcultural Approaches"

1999

Korea Foundation, research scholarship for the Repulic of Korea (South Korea)


Research Topics

Wastewater management in the (semi-)arid context, sustainability in particular sustainable bioeconomy, Life-Cycle Sustainability Assessment, management of R&D, decision-support and policy advisory related to environmental biotechnology


Research Projects

  • SMART-Move
    Sustainable Management of Available Water Resources with Innovative Technologies - Management Of Highly Variable Water REsources in semi-arid Regions (2015-2018)
    BMBF

Latest Publications

Moeller, L; Bauer, A; Zehnsdorf A; Lee, M; Müller RA, Anaerobic co-digestion of waste yeast biomass from citric acid production and waste frying fat, Engineering in Life Sciences 18(7), DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201700176

Klauer, B; Lee, M; Manstetten, R; Petersen, T; Schiller, J (2017), Immaterial Stocks and Institutions, in: Klauer, Manstetten, Petersen and Schiller, Sustainability and the Art of Long-term Thinking, Routledge, London / New York, pp. 53-67.

Klauer, B; Lee, M; Manstetten, R; Petersen, T; Schiller, J (2017), Shaping Institutional Change in the Course of Contamination Management in Saxony-Anhalt, in: Klauer, Manstetten, Petersen and Schiller, Sustainability and the Art of Long-term Thinking, Routledge, London / New York, pp. 141-153.

Klinger J, Riepl D, Wolff H, Heinz I, Rödinger T, Guttman J, Samhan S, Tamimi A, Subah A, Sauter M, Müller R, Geyer S, Ali W, Afferden v. M, Lee M, Liesch T, Hötzl H, Goldscheider N (2016), Challenges of Implementing IWRM in the Lower Jordan Valley. In: Borchardt D., Bogardi J., Ibisch R. (eds) Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementaion. Springer, Cham, pp 749-777, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25071-7_28