Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniela Thrän is Head of the Department of Bioenergy at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ (Leipzig site) and at the same time Head of Division "Bioenergy Systems" at the German Biomass Research Centre gemeinnützige GmbH - DBFZ in Leipzig. At the University of Leipzig, she holds the Chair of Bioenergy Systems. From 2012 to 2019, she was a member of the Bioeconomy Council and from 2012 to 2017, she was head of scientific accompanying research in the "Leading-Edge Cluster Bioeconomy". M.A. Urs Moesenfechtel studied adult education and German language and literature in Cologne and Leipzig and has since worked at the interfaces of press and public relations, event organisation and education management. The mediation of environmental and nature protection topics forms thereby a emphasis of its work. For example, he worked at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ as press and public relations officer for the projects TEEB DE (Natural Capital Germany), BonaRes (Soil as a Sustainable Resource for the Bioeconomy) and NeFo (Network Forum on Biodiversity Research Germany). He managed the science communication of the accompanying research of the Leading-Edge Cluster Bioeconomy at the UFZ and the UFZBioeconomyInformationBureau (BIB). In the framework of the SYMOBIO project (Systemic Monitoring and Modelling of the Bioeconomy), he conducted several events with stakeholders of the German bioeconomy.
