Ariane Krause (Dr.-Ing.) works as Post-Doc scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) in Großbeeren. Ariane graduated in 2011 in industrial engineering at Technische Universität Berlin (TUB). After that, she did an interdisciplinary PhD study on "Valuing Wastes" in the research group "Microenergy System" at TUB. In 2018, Ariane obtained her doctoral degree with honors. Ariane‘s research interest is a sustainable and future-oriented food production that is climate-friendly, circular and community-supportive and based on circular economies, nutrient cycling and restoration of soil humus. She works with multi-method approaches andintegrates empirical methods, such as fertilizers testing in different cropping systems, with analytical methods such as material flow analysis and multi criteria analysis. Since 2017, Ariane is committee member of the German national organization for standardization (Deutsches Institut für Normung, DIN). In 2018, Ariane won the Josef G. Knoll European Science Award.