Doris Knoblauch joined Ecologic Institute in January 2006 and works as a Senior Fellow and Coordinator for Urban & Spatial Governance, as well as Co-Coordinator for the team dealing with Plastics & Circular Economy. Thematically, she focuses on plastics governance, circular economy, resource efficiency, green urban environments, local climate protection as well as evaluations and assessments. Another focus is environmental policy in international cooperation. Doris Knoblauch works in German and English and has good knowledge of Spanish and French.

Doris Knoblauch is an experienced project manager and passionate scientist. Specifically, she is working on the following projects:

Networking and Knowledge Transfer Project of the Funding Programme "Resource-efficient circular economy – circular textiles" (ZirTeNet): Doris Knoblauch heads the project together with Mandy Hinzmann. Together with the project team, they support the networking of 16 joint projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) on the topic of circular textiles.

Resource Efficiency and Natural Resources in an International Context: Doris Knoblauch coordinates the project and conducts evaluations on a variety of topics related to resource conservation and the circular economy.

Challenges for International Climate Protection in the Face of the Global Triple Crisis. Climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution: The project focuses on analyzing the challenges and interactions between the three crisis and the question of how measures can be designed to create synergies between climate protection, biodiversity conservation, and the reduction of environmental pollution. Other crises are also involved, such as land degradation and food security. The project is led by Doris Knoblauch.

Plastic Pirates – German coast: In this project, school classes and youth groups search for plastic waste on the coasts and the river system of the Elbe – including its tributaries such as the Havel, Mulde or Saale. In doing so, they are making an important contribution to research. The collected research data is uploaded to a central web platform and then analyzed by scientists from the Kiel Science Factory and Ecologic Institute.

Monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Europe 2020 Strategy: Doris Knoblauch is part of the team at Ecologic Institute monitoring the SDGs under the coordination of the Institute for Managing Sustainability. Thematically, she is responsible for SDG 17, "Partnerships for the goals".

Doris Knoblauch is an active member of the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, an international network of diverse, independent scientific and technical experts seeking to contribute with summaries and interpretations of scientific knowledge to decision makers and the public involved in the negotiations towards a global agreement to end plastic pollution. She is furthermore member of the European Citizen Science Association and of the German speaking Society for Transdisciplinary and Participatory Research (Gesellschaft für transdisziplinäre und partizipative Forschung e.V.).

Since 2012, Doris Knoblauch has also worked intensively with cities and municipalities. Thereby, she has not only built up a network of different cities and municipalities as well as relevant actors, but also gathered a deep understanding of the functioning and needs of communities. In her work, she appreciates when science can be of practical use for communities and results are directly implemented to solving on-the-ground problems.

Furthermore, Doris Knoblauch is an experienced and passionate moderator. Within the last 15 years she has facilitated a variety of different events, including small working groups via larger international project meetings as well as stakeholder events to conferences.