Principal Investigator
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Postdoctoral Researchers
PhD Students
MSc Students
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Ms. Anna Bogatu
External Collaborators
- Dr. Matthias Willmann (Solexperts AG / ETH Zurich)
Former Group Members
- Andres Velasquez (MSc): ‘Saturation impact on flow velocities and intermittency in porous media’
- Mayumi Hamada (MSc): ‘Impact of water saturation on chemical reactions in porous media’ – Culmann Prize for excellent Master’s thesis
- Edgar Hernandez (MSc): ‘X-ray imaging of xenon gas concentrations in aqueous environments’
- Jiande Zhou (MSc): ‘Multiscale porosity microfluidics model’
- Marta Botella (MSc): ‘Relative importance of carbon and ethoxylated groups on the fate and transport of synthetic surfactants in natural soils’
- Dr. Erfan Haghighi (Postdoc, now at Oxygen at Work AG)
- Corinne Berens (MSc): ‘Modeling characteristic catchment times: Insights gained from a large-sample frequency domain analysis in the Conus’
- Alon Nissan (PhD): ‘Reactive transport with fluid−solid interactions in dual-porosity media’ (Visiting PhD student; Weizmann Institute)
- Julian Schoch (MSc): ‘Mimicking capillary fringe dynamics in a microfluidic chip’
- Marta Llamas Dios (PhD): ‘Mixing endorheic catchments’ (Visiting PhD student; University of Malaga)
- Lena Herzt (MSc): ‘The role of irrigation modernization and climate change for future groundwater recharge and nitrogen leaching’
- Matthias Häfliger (MSc): ‘Assessing the impact of aquifer heterogeneity on the underground thermal energy storage’
- Dorothee Kurz (PhD): ‘Biofilms in porous media: a pore-scale investigation of the interplay between biofilm development and local hydrodynamics’ (now at Oxyle)
- Ishaan Markale (PhD): ‘Impact of phases saturation on effective reaction kinetics in porous media’ (now at FS Dynamics)
- Pratchaya Pramoj: ‘Bacterial competition in porous media’
- Lucas Soliva (MSc): ‘Aquifer recharge in Campo de Cartagena aquifer (Spain): isotopic signal and unsaturated flow’
- Xueyi Zhang (PhD): ‘Mixing-driven reactions in multiphase flow’ (Visiting PhD student; Hohai University)
- Aleksandar Loncar (PhD): ‘Bacterial chemotaxis in porous media’ (Visiting PhD student; University of Rennes)
- Navid Ahmadi (Postdoc): ‘Modelling of biogeochemical reactions in porous media’ (Visiting postdoc; Darmstadt Technical University)
- Margherita Ferrarini (MSc): ‘A digital twin for the Empa High Temperature-Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (HT-BTES)’ (Visiting MSc student; Politecnico di Milano)
- Dr. Liliana Petrenko (Research Assistant)
- Dr. Tetiana Zobolotnia (Research Assistant)
- Loida Zaragoza (MSc): ‘Aquifer recharge in intensive irrigated areas considering climate change scenarios’
- Dr. Amirsaman Rezaeyan (Postdoc): ‘Chaotic transport and inertial effects in unsaturated porous media’