Meret Aeppli

Expertise soil chemistry, redox reactions, biogeochemistry Meret Aeppli joined EPFL as a tenure track assistant professor and head of the soil biogeochemistry laboratory (SOIL) in September 2022. Her group aims to elucidate the fundamental principles and mechanisms of electron transfer reactions and their role in the biogeochemical cycling of carbon and metals in soil. Meret was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in the department of Earth System Science from 2019 to 2022 where she studied biogeochemical controls on carbon turnover in soils and sediments. She holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences from ETH Zurich and obtained her PhD from ETH Zurich in 2018. She was awarded the ETH Medal for her dissertation work in which she developed novel approaches to quantify the redox properties and reactivities of iron minerals. ResearchCurrent Research Fields Soil chemistry Teaching & PhD PhD Students Bence Dienes, Emma Lorraine Defrang, Elisa Berger, Michelangelo Vuono Courses Environmental chemistry ENV-200 This course provides students with an overview over the basics of environmental chemistry. This includes the chemistry of natural systems, as well as the fate of anthropogenic chemicals in natural systems. It enables students to apply general chemical concepts to natural systems. Fate and behaviour of environmental contaminants ENV-507 The student will learn the important processes that control the transport and transformation of organic chemicals in the environment, as well as the formulation and solution of quantitative models to describe these processes. Awards Jin Jingfu Memorial Lecture Award International Association of Geochemistry 2024 ETH Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis ETH Zürich 2019