Curriculum

Curriculum

2016 – present Privatdozent and Scientific Staff,  Rock-Water Interaction Group, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern
2015 Habilitation in Aqueous Geochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland
2012 – 2015 Scientific Staff,  Rock-Water Interaction Group, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern
2007 – 2011 Senior, "Fachbereichsleiter", Section Environment, Gruner Ltd., Basel (CH)
1999 – 2007 Project Manager, National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Nagra), Wettingen (CH)
1998 – 1999 Project Manager, Geotest AG, Zurich (CH)
1994 – 1998 Scientific Collaborator, Amt für  Gewässerschutz und Abfallwirtschaft des Kantons Bern (CH)
1992 – 1994 Project Manager, MBT Environmental, Zurich (CH) and Barcelona (E)
1991 – 1992 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Geol­ogy and Dept. Civil Engineering, Stanford University (USA)
1990 – 1991 Postodoctoral Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Dübendorf (CH)
1990 Doctoral degree in Natural Sciences (Dr. sc.nat.), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), awarded with the Otto-Jaag-Gewässerschutzpreis 1990
1986 – 1990 Doctoral research, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Dübendorf (CH)
1985 – 1986 Assistant, Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
1985 Diploma in Natural Sciences (sc. nat.), Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich

 

Research

Research Interests

 

My ambition is to pursue – whenever possible – a holistic approach based on the methodological triad lab–field–modelling. The conceptual methodology for studying mineral-water processes in “real” systems is sketched out in the figure below. It shows the different ingredients grouped as tools (e.g. analytical methods, mathematical codes) and data (e.g. experimental data from lab or field experiments, thermodynamic / kinetic data). Such a comprehensive approach is only possible in a skilled multidisciplinary team. I collaborate with many colleagues in Switzerland and abroad, specialised on different topics.

Modelling - Lab - Field

Most of my research has an applied focus centred on geological disposal of radioactive waste. Specific areas are:

  • Geochemistry in the engineered barrier system (EBS) of high-level waste repositories
  • Diffusion processes in the EBS
  • Geochemistry and diffusion in argillaceous host rocks
  • Steel corrosion and its impact on the bentonite barrier
  • Transport of radionuclides in the EBS and host rock
  • Coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in the EBS

 

Research group Rock-Water Interaction

Publications

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