Together with his team at CIRCULAR REPUBLIC, Dr. Niclas-Alexander Mauß works closely with board members, executives, innovators and founders in corporations, SMEs and startups, driving cross-company projects to realize circular value chains, especially in the manufacturing, electronics and energy industry. Previously, he lead a start-up incubator at UnternehmerTUM, for a decade shaped a manufacturer’s growth and transformation to a multi-award-winning circular economy pioneer and launched CirculaTUM, Europe’s largest circular economy research hub. He was appointed to the expert group “Circular Manufacturing Systems” of the German Federal Environment Ministry and is an early advisor and pre-seed investor of one of Europe’s leading cleantech start-ups.