Full Name: René Lindner
Job title: Freelance consultant for standardisation in research projects
Country: Germany
Short bio
René Lindner was senior project manager at DIN and the coordinator of the BRIDGIT2 project, which aim was to strengthen the relationship between the research, innovation and standardization community. He has more than 12 years of experience with research and innovation projects and is mainly involved in innovative topics such as smart cities, resilience and climate change. He has been part of the European Commission's successfully declared project SMR Smart Mature Resilience and supported the development of the CWA 17300 series on ‘City Resilience Development intensively’. Besides SMR he participated in several other European FP projects such as SmarterTogether, ESPRESSO, DRIVER+, ResiStand and U_CAN. Since 2009 he holds a diploma in Industrial Engineering from the TU Berlin (Germany) and in 2024 he received his PhD from Tecnun - University of Navarra (Spain) on the integration of standardization in research projects. Since 2025, he offers his knowledge as a freelance consultant.