Prof. Dr. Martina Otten

• Agricultural Chemistry for Farmers and Industrial Engineering Agribusiness Marketing and Management (General, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry with Practical Examples from the Fields of Plant Protection, Fertiliser, Soil, Photovoltaics, Biogas, Renewable Resources, Biochemistry)
• Practical course in agricultural chemistry for WA, LW
• Fundamentals of Chemistry for Management of Renewable Energies (general, inorganic and organic chemistry with examples from photovoltaics e.g. silicon, Grätzel cells and organic compounds, chemical processes in biogas plants and chemistry of renewable resources)
• Chemical practical course for ME
• Exercises and free question time
• FWPM Wind Power I, including business game "Wind Project" and excursion into practice
• FWPM Plant Protection Products, with excursion into practice
• Guest lectures

• Studies at the Universities of Marburg and Hanover
• 15 years in industry
• Experience in chemical and biological research / development of new crop protection products; responsible for initial formulations, screening and greenhouse testing in the field of herbicides; project management in global marketing; international marketing and sales for crop protection products; European marketing for chemical intermediates for the pharmaceutical, crop protection, tyre manufacturing, gas scrubbing of natural gas and biogas plants, wind turbines; various special projects including genetically modified crops and innovation management. Development and implementation of a seminar on chemical training for business people.
• 2001 Project work in USA
• Inventor/co-inventor of numerous patents including the active ingredient patent and compound patent for the maize herbicide Tropamezone in "Clio" from BASF.
• since 2009 Lecturer at the HSWT
• since 2010 library officer of the department
• since 2010 HSWT contact to the advisory board for the WA degree programme
• since 2013 Women's representative of the department
• since 2013 Subject advisor for WA
  

Completed activities in self-administration:

• 2010 - 2013 programme director of the WA degree programme
• 2011 - 2015 Vice department chair of the department

• Organisation and moderation of the Food Economics Symposium at the HSWT
• since 2013 Organisation and moderation of the "Energy Policy Workshop" - Workshop of the ifo Institute in cooperation with the University of applied sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
• MINT projects at schools and kindergartens
• Research work: 38 Bachelor's theses to date in cooperation with numerous practical companies