Professor Braungart is a chemist and the founder of EPEA, the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency in Hamburg, Germany. He is also co-founder of MBDC, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, based in Charlottesville, Virginia. He' s currently a professor of Process Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Suderburg, also serving as director of an interdisciplinary materials flow management masters program. He lectures widely on topics such as eco-efficient design, eco-effectiveness, Cradle-to-Cradle and Intelligent Materials Pooling.