It's not easy being green. Did you know that more than 20 eco-unfriendly processing steps go into a traditional pair of pre-washed jeans? During the last decade, many denim manufacturers have begun changing the environmental hazards of their processing by recycling their wastes and greening their production steps. With STN®, we will investigate some of the new green trends in denim manufacturing.
Trend Barometer
New inventions in current research fields in 2011 (worldwide)
Last update: 16 January 2012
Source: STN databases
CAplus(SM), DWPI(SM) and INPAFAMDB
FIZ News
December 2011
Wechsel an der Spitze – Professor Gert-Martin Greuel zum neuen Chefredakteur des Zentralblatts für Mathematik ernannt
Meet us at
PIUG Biotechnology Meeting,
Boston, Feb 07
46. GDM - Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik,
Weingarten, Mar 05-09
Management
- Sabine Brünger-Weilandt
President & CEO
Sabine Brünger-Weilandt has been President & CEO of FIZ Karlsruhe since 2003. She holds a humanities degree and acquired management experience in senior positions at international enterprises and organizations (Deutsche Bank, Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt, Greenpeace, BBDO Group, and others). Mrs. Brünger-Weilandt holds various honorary positions. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), Frankfurt a. M., the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), Munich, of the Foundation Council of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information (DIPF), Frankfurt/M., and of the Scientific Advisory Board of TIB Hannover. She advises the Executive Board of the Leibniz Association in matters of information infrastructure. In this function, she has been commissioned to lead the workgroup “Fachinformationsinfrastruktur“ (scientific information infrastructure) which in 2009 presented the “Rahmenkonzept für die Fachinformationsinfrastruktur in Deutschland“ (framework concept for a scientific information infrastructure in Germany) to the “Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz des Bundes und der Länder” (GWK – Joint Science Conference ). She also chaired the committee “The future of the information infrastructure“ (Kommission Zukunft der Informationsinfrastruktur – KII) which developed on behalf of the GWK an overall concept for an information infrastructure for Germany and submitted it to the GWK in 2011.
FIZ Karlsruhe’s Senior Management
from left to right:
Dr. Andreas Barth – Head Business Development
Dr. Josef Mattes – Vice President Information Technology
Dr. Rainer Stuike-Prill – Vice President Marketing & Sales
Christina Wolhorn – Vice President Strategic Planning
Silke Rehme – Vice President Content & Services
Sabine Brünger-Weilandt – President & CEO
Dr. Leni Helmes – Senior Vice President
Dr. Gerhard Kobel – Head Finance / Prokurist
not pictured:
Dr. habil. Susanne Holstein – Head Staff Unit
Dietmar Bicheler – Vice President Administration