News & Events

Rong Jia is joining us from China Agricultural University for 18 months. Welcome!

We congratulate Andreas Cramer on a successful PhD defense on 28.2.2024!

The group is participating at this year's ZHydro Seminar. Julian Schoch and Nedal Aqel gave a talk and Andrea Carminati presented a poster.

Congratulations to Patrick Duddek for defending his PhD thesis succesfully!

Read the News & Views article in Nature Communications here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41854-x

Nedal Aqel, Niklas Schmücker and Peter Lehmann presented their work at the European Healthy Soils Conference in Muttenz, Switzerland.

Congratulations to Tina Köhler for defending her PhD thesis succesfully.

We welcome Prof. Dr Walid Sadok from the University of Minnesota, USA, as a guest professor.

Congratulations to Andreas Cramer for his newest publication: “Ferrihydrite coating reduces microplastic induced soil water repellency”     https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/em/d3em00077j

The publication “Ferrihydrite coating reduces microplastic induced soil water repellency” has been published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.  

Andreas Cramer gave a talk on “Microplastic Interaction with soil water distribution dynamics” at SETAC in Dublin on May 2nd 2023.

Andreas contributed with a session talk on “Microplastic Interaction with soil water distribution dynamics” at the EGU in Vienna on 28.4.2023.

We welcome our newest doctorate student Nedal Aqel.

Read the article here https://www.soils.org/news/science-news/lasting-impact-microplastics-settling-soil/

Andreas Cramer will be presenting "Microplastic water repellency reduced by ferrihydrite coating" at the conference at the Congressi Stefano Franscini, Switzerland on 8^th of November 2022.

Andreas Cramer will present his work at the 9^th International Topical Meeting on Neutron Radiography (ITMNR-9) in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 19^th 2022.

Our group is growing and we're welcoming Sara! She started as a doctoral candidate at ETHZ.  

Florian and Julian joined the group to complete their PhD theses at the ETH. Welcome to the group!

Andrea Carminati received together with Mathieu Javaux the ISCM Publication Award 2020 for the paper "Soil Rather Than Xylem Vulnerability Controls Stomatal Response to Drought", Trends in Plant Science, 25: 868–880

Pascal Benard was selected as Outstanding Reviewer by Vadose Zone Jouranel. Congratulations for you great work!  

Fabian Wankmüller joined the group to do complete his PhD thesis at the ETH. Welcome to the group!