Summary
Jan Knappe is a Group Sustainability Systems Manager with nine years’ experience turning messy environmental data into decision-grade intelligence to support Scope 1–3 traceability, compliance, and decarbonisation. He designs evidence→lineage→insight pipelines and has scaled ESG data platforms across 100+ sites, automating workflows and improving revenue and reporting reliability. His background spans academia and consultancy—holding a PhD in environmental science and pioneering in-situ GHG measurements, sensor networks, and dynamic models for urban water resilience. Jan combines technical DataOps skills (R and data engineering) with practical stakeholder partnering across Finance, Operations and IT to close location and quality gaps across languages and regions. At Spirax Group he now manages group-wide sustainability systems for assurance, regulatory reporting and One Planet goals, and he enjoys making sustainability tangible through clean models, monitoring and training.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Science for Sustainable Development (Environmental Studies), Master’s Degree, Science for Sustainable Development (Environmental Studies) at Linköpings universitet
Bachelor’s Degree, Physic (Biophysics & Physics of Complex Systems), Bachelor’s Degree, Physic (Biophysics & Physics of Complex Systems) at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Science at University of Limerick
German, English, Swedish, French, Hungarian