New responsibilities!
Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez has been appointed as Chair (2021-2022) of the Unsaturated Zone Technical Committee of the American Geophysical Union. Congratulations! Click here for more information.
Poster Award for Sandra!
Dr. Sandra Pool won one of the Poster Prizes at the 2020 World Food System Center Research Symposium. Congratulations, Sandra! Click here to read more
New publication
New paper, in collaboration with Weizmann Institute, on the scaling laws of fluid-solid reactions in dual-porosity media, accepted in Environmental Science and Technology - Water.
New publication
New paper, in collaboration with Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu from UC Berkeley, Luis Cueto from Technical University of Madrid, Ruben Juanes from MIT and collaborators at Los Alamos National Lab, on how crustal fingering facilitates free-gas methane migration through the hydrate stability zone, accepted in PNAS.
New publication
Marta Botella's paper, with collaborators at University of Cadiz, on the structural control of non-ionic surfactants on their sorption and degradation in soils, published in Environmental Pollution.
Highly cited publication!
The paper, in collaboration with Denise Mitrano from ETH, on the transport of particulate plastics in unsaturated soils, listed as one of the Top Cited Articles Published in 2018 - 2020 by Environmental Science and Technology.
New publication
New paper in Advances in Water Resources on a multiple point statistics method to generate phases distributions within porous media and their control on solute transport and chemical reactions. This has been done in collaboration with the group of Philippe Renard from University of Neuchatel.
New publication
New paper on the local viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids flowing in porous media in collaboration with Markus Holzner' group (WSL and Eawag) published in Scientific Reports.
Two PhD positions on “Microbial ecology in soil studied through microfluidic soil analogues”
We are seeking two dynamic and motivated doctoral students for a project to study microbial ecology in soil analogues. The positions are funded by two recently awarded grants, an EU - Innovative Training Network (ITN) Grant (CoPerMix) and an ETH Research Grant. Apply now! through the Eawag system or ETH Zurich system