Hannes Markus PeterCurrent work
I am a microbial ecologist and mainly interested in factors shaping bacterial communities and functioning in freshwater ecosystems. I use combinations of field observations, experiments and molecular techniques to test hypotheses regarding the assembly of microbial communities, the influence of environmental variability and relationships between diversity and funcioning. I enjoy working in alpine environments, which are sensitive to climate change and represent excellent model systems.
Teaching
Paolo BenettinI was born in Padova, Italy, in 1986. After high school, I started the Environmental Engineering program at the University of Padova (Bachelor and Master), where I followed the 'soil protection' curriculum. During my Master studies I spent a semester as Erasmus student at Wageningen University (Wageningen, the Netherlands) to follow courses in Hydrology. After graduation, I decided to bring my education further and I started a Ph.D. at the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Padova. My Ph.D. thesis focused on hydrologic transport and travel time distributions at the catchment scale. My contribution to the subject included both new theoretical formulations and extensive numerical applications to real catchments. During my Ph.D., I also spent 7 months as visiting research fellow at Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, USA). Since I arrived at EPFL as post-doc in 2015, I started being involved in field and experimental activities, which allowed me to learn about practical experimental problems. In 2017 I had the opportunity to by hired by the ECHO laboratory as a permanent scientist, conducting research in the field of catchment hydrology.
Benoît Jean Dominique FerrariDr. Benoît J.D. Ferrari studied Biochemistry and Biology and completed his PhD in Ecotoxicology at the University of Lorraine (Metz, France) in 2000. After several years at the University of Geneva (Forel F.A. Institute, Geneva, Switzerland; 2002-2008) and Irstea (Formerly Cemagref, Lyon, France; 2000-2002 and 2008-2013), he joined the Swiss Centre of Applied Ecotoxicology (Centre Ecotox Eawag/EPFL) in October 2013 as group leader of the soil and sediment ecotoxicology group at Lausanne. During his different mandates, he was implied as (co-)proponent in different research projects supported e.g. by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the French National Research Agency or the European Framework Programme for Research. His main areas of interest cover the ecodynamic of contaminants and their impact on the ecophysiology of organisms. Particularly, he is involved in 1) the development of exposure and effect indicators to evaluate the chemical stresses, 2) the integration of such indicators in laboratory- and field-based approaches to assess the quality of aquatic ecosystems, 3) the development of adapted bioassays for active biomonitoring, and 4) the transfer of such ecotoxicological tools and approaches towards end-users.
Tom Ian BattinTeaching & PhD PhD Students Zhe Liu, Aleksei Dukat, Martin Boutroux, Jingyi Hou, Léa Francomme, Stefan Eckensperger Past EPFL PhD Students Amin Niayifar, David Scheidweiler, Asa Lovisa Viktoria Horgby, Marta Boix Canadell, Pier Luigi Segatto, Anna Depetris, Jade Brandani, Massimo Bourquin, Jonas Paccolat, David Touchette Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Jeremy Wong Courses Aquatic ecosystems ENV-321 Inland waters are now being recognized are major players of global biogeochemical cycle
Paraskevi PramateftakiThroughout the years I focused on the molecular typing of microorganisms of various sources aiming to the accurate identification, classification and comparison of microorganisms and their subtypes. My experience extents on both eukaryotic (filamentous fungi/yeasts) and prokaryotic (Gram bacteria) microbes, on the development and application of culture dependent molecular approaches for the study of microbial populations and the use of bioinformatics tools for data mining. In my current position I am involved in the application of culture independent molecular methods for studying stream microbial biofilms.
Anders MeibomAnders Meibom obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Southern Denmark in 1997. This was followed by two and a half years of PostDoc work at the Hawaii Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, where he conducted mineralogical studies of primitive chondritic meteorites. From 2000 to 2005, he was Research Associate in the Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, where he represented Stanford in the USGS-Stanford ion microprobe laboratory. In 2005, he became proifessor at the Muséum National dHistoire Naturelle in Paris. From 2006 to 2011 he was the director of the French national NanoSIMS laboratory. Since January 2012, he is professor at the EPFL in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC). From April 2014, he is professor ad personam at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne.
Stéphane Laurent EscrigLocalization
Detached at Géopolis (UNIL)Stephane EscrigUniversité de LausanneQuartier UNIL-MoulineBatiment Géopolisbureau 3234 / labo NanoSIMS 1105CH-1015 LausannePhone: +41 21 692 4373 ou 4326
Education Ph.D. in Isotope Geochemistry | "Re-Os systematic in oceanic basalts: implications on the nature of the upper mantle chemical heterogeneity" 2004 – 2004 Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII) Directed by Advisor: Pr C.J. Allègre Professionals experiences ICP-Laser
