About us

How the VUNA project with the city of Durban in South Africa became Vuna GmbH.

Vuna means "harvest" in isiZulu, the Zulu language of South Africa. VUNA originated as a project in 2010, when the city of Durban (South Africa) sought for a use for large quantities of separately collected urine. VUNA subsequently evolved between Eawag, eThekwini (Greater Durban), and other partner organizations. The VUNA urine recycling technology for nutrient recovery—or "harvesting"—from urine has proven successful. In 2016, the former VUNA project became Vuna GmbH.

Our team

Bastian Etter

Managing Director

Dipl. Environmental Engineer ETH

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Lukas Ulrich

Technical Manager

MSc Environmental Engineer ETH

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Basile Weber

Project Manager

MSc Environmental Engineer ETH

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Chiara Lauber

Project Manager

MSc Environmental Engineer ETH

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Helena Horber

Project staff member

BSc Environmental Engineer (FH)

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Zoe Holzmann

Project staff member

BSc Environmental Engineer (FH)

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Livia Kaeser

Project staff member

BSc Environmental Engineer (FH)

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Kai Udert

Head of Research

Prof. Dr. sc. tech. ETH

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Luzius Etter

Finance, Marketing & Visualization

EFZ Multimedia Design EMAF & MA Business Innovation HSG

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Pavel Varbanets

IT and e-commerce manager

PhD in International Relations

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Former employees

Philippe Reymond, Carina Doll, Iris Hansen, Nadine Antenen, Andreas Keller, Maximilian Grau, Viviane Furrer, Evelin Vogler, Cécile Bettex, Mariline Attenhofer, Ariane Schertenleib, Lena Xue, Till-Baptiste Römmelt, Nadège de Chambrier, Tabea Vischer