Dr. rer. pol. Mi-Yong Becker
(née Mi-Yong Lee)
Contact / Address
Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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)
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
- IATI-WW Pilot Project
Establishment of a “Research, Demonstration and Training Facility for Decentralized Wastewater and Sludge Management” in Oman (2015-2019) - INCOVER
Innovative Eco-Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater (2016-2019)
EU Horizon 2020
- 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