About
Leo Morf graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, specializing in process and energy engineering. Doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Over 35 years of experience in waste and resource management and environmental and waste technology, focusing on: waste and resource management, thermal waste treatment (thermo-recycling), urban mining, and material flow analysis.
Several years in large-scale industry. 10 years at GEO Partner AG, Zurich, Switzerland, jointly responsible for the waste and resource management and material flow analysis divisions, co-owner and co-manager. 16 years at the Office for Waste, Water, Energy and Air of the Canton of Zurich, responsible for the thermo- recycling of waste for planning, approval and control, and as project manager for the phosphorus mining project of the Canton of Zurich. Head of the technical advisory board of the Foundation Center for Sustainable Waste and Resource Use (ZAR). From January 1, 2026, managing director of the ZAR Foundation.
Member of various international, national, and cantonal working groups, such as the German Association for Water, Wastewater, and Waste (DWA), the Working Committee on Thermal Waste Treatment and Recovery of the Austrian Water and Waste Management Association (ÖWAV), the national working group on CO2 capture and storage (“CCS/NET”), on the state of the art in waste management, Scientific Advisory Board of the “Vienna International Future Conference” (WIZK), Scientific Advisory Board ETHZ, Institute for Environmental Engineering, research project in the field of waste and resource management.
Lecturer at Swiss universities of applied sciences on the subject of material flow analysis and at the Vienna University of Technology in the field of thermal waste recovery/waste technology. Since 2016, lecturer at ETH Zurich on waste technology.
Specialist lectures in Switzerland and at international conferences in Europe, the USA, and Asia, as well as co-author of numerous specialist publications and contributions to books. Numerous peer reviews of scientific publications in the field.