Christina Dornack is director of the institute and holder of the professorship for waste management and recycling at TU Dresden.

Her previous positions were: Head of the Competence Center for Recycling and Raw Materials at the Papiertechnische Stiftung (Paper Technology Foundation), where she was responsible for scientific and industrial research and projects in the areas of waste paper and cascade use of biomass (2013–2024). Assistant professor of Waste and Bioenergy Management at TU Cottbus (2010–2013) with a focus on biogas production from waste and material flow analysis of waste management processes;

Head of the Biowaste Working Group at the Institute for Waste Management and Contaminated Sites at TU Dresden (2004–2010), scientist at the Fraunhofer Society with a focus on anaerobic processes (2001–2004), doctoral student at the Institute for Urban Water Management at TU Dresden (1997–2001).

Since 2020, she has been a member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment and Chair of the Research Advisory Council (RAC) of the German Biomass Research Center (DBFZ gGmbH), and since 2022, she has been a board member of the German Waste Management Association (DGAW e.V.).