Searching what is missing — to take action.
I began as an apprentice tool and die maker in Germany in 1992. Sustainability was absent from our textbooks. The focus was precision and throughput — not what happened after production. That gap never left me.
Three decades later, I have moved from factory floors to university lecture halls, from software startups to the International Space University, and from the Rust Belt to Luleå, Sweden — always asking the same question: what happens when we are done with it?
My PhD at Luleå University of Technology answers that question for satellites. The result is Design for Spacecraft Reuse (DfSR) — a systems framework that embeds circularity into satellite design before a single component is ever fabricated.
I am also director of advisory firm Pulsernity, co-founder of Circulate360, and a frequent speaker on circular economy, industrial transformation, and the future of sustainable space operations.