Hannes Markus Peter

Current 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 & PhD PhD Students Zhe Liu, Aleksei Dukat, Martin Boutroux, Jingyi Hou, Léa Francomme, Stefan Eckensperger, Lisa Theis Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector David Scheidweiler, Anna Depetris, Jade Brandani, David Touchette Courses Hidden rivers PENS-219 Hidden Rivers aims at fulfilling the need for an interdisciplinary understanding of the problematics surrounding urban streams, through ecological, hydrological, and spatial relationships found in riverscapes. Multivariate statistics in R ENV-513 Environmental datasets often contain numerous parameters. Multivariate statistics allow us to simultaneously explore, understand and model such datasets. This course provides conceptual introduction and guidelines for applying multivariate statistical tools using the R platform.