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Congratulations to Melina Wertnik!
Congratulations to our PhD Melina Wertnik, who defended her thesis successfully on March 8th 2024!
Congratulations to Fatemeh Ajallooeian!
Congratulations to our PhD Fatemeh Ajallooeian, who defended her thesis successfully on Februray 2nd 2024!
Congratulations to Negar Haghipour!
Congratulations to Negar Hagiphour, to her 15th anniversary at the Geological Institute!
Dr. Cindy De Jonge appointed as Assistant Professor
Congratulations to Cindy De Jonge who was appointed as Assistant Professor of Earth Ecosystem Dynamics in the Department of Earth Sciences!
2nd GDGT Workshop in September
6-8 September 2023, ETH Zürich, Switzerland The 2nd international GDGT workshop revolves around discussing the latest innovations and findings in glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetrather (GDGT) research.
2020
Career seed grant awarded to Dr. Julie Lattaud
The grant will finance the sampling and analysis of long-chain diols, compounds originating from microalgae, in Lake Geneva (in collaboration with platform external pageLéXPLORE, EPFL). The aim is to unravel the links between compound-specific carbon and hydrogen isotopes and environmental variables such as precipitation and stratification of the lake.
Congratulations to Julie Lattaud for receiving a grant from the Swiss Polar Institute
The Polar Access Grant allows Julie to participate in a cruise going to the Beaufort Sea to investigate methane cycling
Melissa Schwab has successfully defended her doctoral thesis
Congratulations to Melissa Schwab for defending her doctoral thesis on radiocarbon constraints on carbon dynamics in river basins
2019
Julia Krawielicki has successfully defended her doctoral thesis
Congratulations to Julia for defending her doctoral thesis on coupled climate, ecosystem and landscape development in the Afro-Mediterranean region since the Oligocene
Thomas Blattman has been awarded the Silver Medal of ETH Zurich
Congratulations to Thomas, whose work on "Topics on radiocarbon geochemistry and organic matter-mineral interactions" has been recognized as outstanding Doctoral Thesis
Mischa Haas has successfully defended his doctoral thesis
Congratulations to our affiliated student Mischa Haas for defending his doctoral thesis on the impact of early agriculture on soil degradation and lake systems.
2018
MOSAIC - Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon now online
Our MOSAIC database is now accesible though a user-friendly app which can be reached external pagehere within the ETH network, and external pagehere outside of the ETH network.
Thomas Blattmann has successfully defended his doctoral thesis
In course of his PhD Thomas investigated sedimentological processes in the South China Sea and Luzon River and developed a method for amino acid-specific carbon isotope analysis. Congratulations!
Julia Krawielicki has been elected new chair of the Gordon Research Seminar for Organic Geochemistry (September 2020)
The seminar is an event before the Gordon Conference giving young scientists on PhD and PostDoc level the chance to present and exchange new research in an open and informal atmosphere.
Two Doctoral Defenses in July
Congratulations to Gabriela Libanori and Mohammed Usman for successfully defending their doctoral theses in July! We wish both of them all the best for their future.
Blanca Ausin will set sail in 2020
Blanca Ausin has been selected to join the external pageIODP Expedition 378 as organic geochemist. Congratulations!
Our Research is in the News
Read more on how the Little Ice Age displaced the tropical rain belt.
New Fellow of the Royal Society
It has been announced in London on 1 May 2014 that Tim Eglinton has been elected a new Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
The main purpose of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, is to recognise, promote and support excellence in science and the use of science for the benefit of the humanity. Its Fellowship is the backbone of the Society. There are currently some 1450 Fellows and Foreign Members. They span all disciplines of Science, Engineering and Technology. Fellows and Foreign Members are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science.