Former group members

Esther Breuninger

2023:
Ph.D. Environmental System Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis: From the Atmosphere to Seawater: Influences of Sources and Transformation Processes on the Speciation of Selenium and Arsenic

Currently at:
Wien, Austria

Zoé Le Bras

2023:
Ph.D. Environmental System Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis: Understanding Selenium biovolatilization through the spatial and temporal distribution of methylated species in marine and brackish ecosystems: from analytical method development to field application

Currently at:
Scientist, EMPA Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

Jill Bachelder

2023:
Ph.D. Environmental System Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis: The effect of organic input composition on soil processes controlling Zn and Cd uptake by wheat crops

Currently at: 
Postdoc at UFZ Leipzig

Aryeh Feinberg

2020:
Ph.D. Environmental System Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis: The atmospheric sulfur and selenium cycles: a global model of transport and deposition

Postdoc (2020-2021)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Currently at:
Postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA, US

Emanuel Müller

2020:
Ph.D. Environmental System Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis: Reactions of aqueous bromine with marine organic sulfur and selenium species

Currently at:
Global Environmental Manager, Stadler Rail, Switzerland

Bas Vriens

2015:
Ph.D. Environmental System Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis: The Role of Methylation in the Biogeochemical Selenium Cycle

Currently at:
Assistant Professor at Queen's University

Timothy Blazina

2015:
Ph.D. in Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
Thesis: Investigating Rainfall as a Source of Selenium

Currently at:
Data Scientist at Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund

Boris Droz

2014-2015:
Research Assistant at Eawag

Pauline Béziat (MSc-Student)

MSc in Environmental Science (October 2019)
Thesis title: Method Development for Analyzing Intracellular Selenium Speciation in Natural Phytoplankton Assemblages

Karin MacKevett (MSc-Student)

MSc in Environmental Science
Thesis title: Effects of organic matter on arsenic (im)mobilisation in a case study from the Red River Delta, Vietnam

Sarah Chékifi (MSc-Student)

MSc in Environmental Science (May 2018)
Thesis title: SEC-ICP-MS/MS Method Development for Selenium Speciation in Soils

Lara Widmer (MSc-Student)

MSc in Environmental Science (Januar 2018)
Thesis title: Mercury concentration ranges and speciation in Swiss wastewater treatment plants

Olivia Hausheer (MSc Student)

MSc in Environmental Science (April 2017)
Thesis title: Investigating soil selenium over a precipitation gradient in Hawaii

Deyan Poffet (MSc Student)

MSc in Environmental Science (September 2015)
Thesis title: Effect of Soil Organic Carbon and Agricultural Practises on Retention of Selenium in Soil and Selenium Uptake by Wheat in England and Wales

Annick Frising (MSc Student)

MSc in Environmental Science (April 2014)
Thesis title: Arsenic adsorption an iron mineralogy in an arsenic contaminated aquifer: field experiments.

Marcel Mathis (MSc Student)

MSc in Environmental Science (February 2014)
Thesis title: Method development and in-situ measurements in an algal culture of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for volatile, methylated selenium and sulfur using solid-phase micro-extraction.

Rita Schubert (MSc Student)

MSc in Environmental Science (August 2013)
Thesis title: Selenium, sulfur, bromine and iodine in the lake sediment archive of Lago Cardiel, Argentina - atmospheric versus geologic sources.

Kevin Lang (BSc-Student)

BSc in Environmental Science (2016)
Thesis title: Broad scale Drivers of Element Concentration in US Soils: Evaluation of Machine Learning Models in R

Melanie Ridoli (BSc-Student)

BSc in Environmental Science (2016)
Thesis Title: Toxicity effects of silver, copper and the mixture of both metals on stream periphyton

Corinne Schlierenzauer (BSc-Student)

BSc in Environmental Science (2016)
Thesis Title: Analyses of Selenium in Rainwater Samples by Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry

Judith Riedo (BSc Student)

BSc in Environmental Science (2015)
Thesis Title: Die räumliche Verbreitung von Brom im Niederschlag der Schweiz

Manuel Kübler (BSc Student)

BSc in Environmental Science (2015)
Thesis Title: Bromgehalte in Oberflächen- und Grundwässern des Schweizer Mittellandes