Kerstin Hermuth-Kleinschmidt | Sustainability Consultant
NIUB Sustainability Consulting

Kerstin Hermuth-Kleinschmidt graduated in chemistry and holds a PhD in microbiology from the University of Freiburg.  She worked for several years in sales and technical customer service in the life science industry, before she turned her attention to the topic of sustainability.   As an independent consultant, speaker and author of publications on various aspects of sustainability, her focus is now on the implementation and monitoring of sustainability processes and the practical implementation of sustainability in scientific work and research. She offers workshops and lectures on specific aspects of sustainability in laboratory and research work and the context of life sciences companies as well as individual support. In her daily work with labs, she uses the Ecomapping(TM) method that helps labs to develop their individual action plan to make lab work more sustainable. Since 2017, she has also been teaching as part of the Studium Generale. Forum Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft (FORUM) at KIT Karlsruhe as part of the ‘Sustainable Development’ degree programme to pass on her knowledge to the younger generation.