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Hugo Banderier is a new PhD with the Mobiliar Group for Climate Impact Research. He did a Master’s in ETH in Physics with a thesis entitled “Towards a hybrid EPR method for cQAD devices”. The working title of his PhD thesis is “North Atlantic jet dynamics and persistent summer weather in Europe”.
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Edgar Dolores Tesillos is a new PostDoc with the Mobiliar Group for Climate Impact Research. He holds a MSc in Earth Sciences from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and did a PhD in Meteorology at the Free University of Berlin. His research interests are in Atmospheric Dynamics, Atmospheric Modeling, Renewable Energies, Clouds and Convection, Physical and Applied Climatology.
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Monika Feldmann is a new PostDoc with the Mobiliar Group for Climate Impact Research. She holds a Master’s in Environmental sciences from ETH Zurich and did a PhD in Environmental remote sensing in collaboration with the Radar, Satellites and Nowcasting division at MeteoSwiss and the Laboratoire de Télédétection Environnementale at EPFL. In her new position she will investigate the mid-range predictability of severe convective outbreaks in central Europe.
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Lana Flanjak is a new PhD with the Marine biogeochemistry and pollutants group. She did a Master’s in Environmental science at Aalborg University with a thesis entitled “Cellular response of marine diatom Chaetoceros pseudocurvisetus to warming and nitrogen availability”. The working title of her PhD thesis is: “Modeling of the marine biological carbon cycle under future global warming”.
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Klaus Jarosch is a new Scientific staff member with the Soil Science group. He gained a MSc at the Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala (double degree) and a PhD at ETH Zurich entitled “New approaches to characterise soil organic phosphorus and to measure phosphorus transformation rates”.
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Sujung Lee is a new PhD with the Climate change and health group. She did a Master's in Climate Sciences at the University of Bern, with a thesis entitled "Exploring the Association between Precipitation and Hospital Admission for Mental Disorders in Switzerland between 2009 and 2019". The working title of her PhD thesis is: "Developing Individual Vulnerability Profiles to Heat".
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Heike Lindner is a new Senior research associate with the Stomatal Biology group. She earned her PhD in Plant Developmental Genetics at the University of Zurich. Afterwards, she joined the Carnegie Institution for Sciences in Stanford, California, USA, as a Postdoc to study natural variation in root system architecture. In 2018, she joined the Stomatal Biology group at Heidelberg University, where she established the grass biotechnology platform. Since then, the Stomatal Biology group has moved to the Institute of Plant Sciences of the University of Bern. Currently Heike works on developmental processes in the succulent plant Kalanchoë laxiflora. She wants to understand how certain morphologies of stomata, the plant’s breathing pores, contribute to water-efficient photosynthesis and the unique regeneration potential.
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Ursina Morgenthaler is a new PhD with the Soil Science group. She did Master of Science in Geography at the University of Zurich with a thesis entitled “The influence of biochar and biochar-based fertilizers on rice root architecture and below-ground carbon input under field- and controlled conditions”. Her current research topic is antimony release from contaminated soils upon flooding.
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Alicia Portal is a new PostDoc with the Mobiliar Group for Climate Impact Research. She did a PhD at Università Milano–Bicocca and Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris on mid-latitude atmospheric dynamics and climate. In her new position, she will work on compound weather events associated with Mediterranean Cyclones - climatology and large-scale climate drivers (COMPOUND-MED).
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Patrick Schläfli is a new PostDoc with the Paleoecology group. He holds a MSc in Environmental dynamics and Georisks from the University of Leipzig, Germany and he did a PhD (Thesis: “Vegetation dynamics and biostratigraphy of Middle and Late Pleistocene interglacials in Europe”) at the Institute of Plant Sciences at the University of Bern.
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Samuel Schlichenmaier is a new PhD with the Soil Science group. He studied agronomy at the University of Hohenheim, Germany and did a Master’s thesis entitled: "Soil aggregate formation following plant residue application of different qualities to low fertility sandy soils in North-eastern Thailand". |
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Ann-Kathrin Stalder is a new Scientific staff member with the Lake Sediments and Paleolimnology group. She gained a MSc at San Diego State University, US in Environmental Engineering financed by a Fulbright scholarship. For her thesis she studied silver nanoparticles and their effect on wastewater treatment. Ann-Kathrin then did a PhD at ETH Zurich and Eawag, Switzerland in Process Engineering. There she studied the fate of organic micropollutants (illicit drugs) in wastewater as well as wastewater-based epidemiology (back calculating community drug abuse through wastewater analysis). |
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Jakob Starlander is a new Postdoc with the Climate and Society group. He gained a Master’s degree in history focusing on early modern times in Northern Europe from Uppsala University, Sweden. He then did a PhD at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Division of Agrarian History. In his new position he is part of a project called Volcanic Eruptions, Climate and Society in History. |
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Markus Steffens is a new Scientific staff member with the Soil Science group. He a PhD in Natural Sciences with a thesis entitled “Soils of a semiarid shortgrass steppe in Inner Mongolia: Organic matter composition and distribution as affected by sheep grazing”. He then did a habilitation thesis on “Imaging spectroscopy in soil science: Qualitative and quantitative mapping of soil chemical and physical properties on the pedon scale”. Markus has been working as lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern since 2019. |
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Rebeka Sträter is a new PhD with the Comparative Politics group. She did a Master's in Political Science at the University of Bern with a thesis entitled "Maternity leave legislation in Switzerland: Effects on mothers' and women's employment participation and intensity". The working title of her PhD thesis is “Social Acceptance of Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage”. |
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Camille Thomas is a new Senior Research Assistant with the Sedimentary Geochemistry group. His research is funded by the SNSF for a duration of 4 years. He will work on the role of microbial activity in preserving original paleoclimatic signals in the lacustrine archives of lake Nam Co on the Tibetan Plateau. Camille is a geomicrobiologist working on the impact of microbial communities in sedimentary environments. He has explored the subsurface communities of multiple long-lived lakes used for paleoclimatic reconstruction using tools such as DNA, biominerals or lipid biomarkers, in particular within the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP). Camille is also the co-founder of the Diamond Open Access journal Sedimentologika, a community-driven scientific journal in sedimentology that promotes free access to science for all, at any time. |
