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Research Interests
As a microbial biogeochemist, I am interested in how microorganisms control planetary biogeochemistry and modulate the impact of anthropogenic pollution. Research in the lab focuses on how microbes interact with each other and their environment, how they shape their localized biogeochemistry, and how they collectively impact biogeochemical cycles across scales in the Earth system. We combine computational (bioinformatics, computational fluid dynamics, individual-based modeling), wet lab (microfluidics, imaging, flow cytometry, analytical chemistry), and field-going approaches to gain a holistic and mechanism-based understanding of microbial ecosystems.
Short History
I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Systems Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and a Master of Science in Hydrology from Imperial College London. I pursued a Ph.D. at the interface of Soil Physics and Environmental Microbiology back at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ). Subsequently, I became a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the group of Andrew Babbin studying the interactions between microbes and marine particles before joining the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Rutgers University.