Eawag Annual Report 2022

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Peter Penicka, Eawag
Nathalie Dubois appointed titular professor
The palaeolimnologist Nathalie Dubois has headed the
Eawag sedimentology research group since 2013. With
her team, she analyses the sediments in lakes layer
by layer and thereby reconstructs past environmental
conditions – with the objective of relating these to
current and future climate changes. Dubois has also been
giving internship lectures at ETH Zurich since 2014. From
2016 to 2021, Dubois received a professorship from the
Swiss National Science Foundation This year, she was
finally appointed titular professor by the ETH Board on
1 June 2022.
New head of the Fisheries Advisory Service
The office of the Fisheries Advisory Service has been
headed by Andrin Krähenbühl since May 2022. The biologist
studied at the University of Bern and specialised
in aquatic ecology and evolution. Then he worked at
Eawag on crustaceans, molluscs and insects in freshwater.
In addition, he had been working at the Swiss
Competence Centre for Fisheries (SKF) since 2021.
Krähenbühl has been a passionate angler ever since
he was a young child. He regularly visits a wide variety
of watercourses and lakes in Switzerland, and his
favourite way of getting around is by boat in the Three
Lakes Region.
Raoul Schaffner, Eawag
Nathalie Dubois
Damien Bouffard becomes professor at the University
of Lausanne
The University of Lausanne has appointed Damien Bouffard
as associate professor ad personam. The specialist
in aquatic physics has headed the Aquatic Physics
research group since January 2017. He focuses on the
characterisation of physical processes that determine
transport and mixing in natural bodies of water. Together
with his team, he combines a wide range of instruments
for this purpose, from in-situ observations, such as on
the LéXPLORE research platform floating on Lake Geneva,
to various types of hydrodynamic models such as
Meteolakes.
Andrin Krähenbühl
Karin Ingold is president of Proclim
The political scientist Karin Ingold, professor at the University
of Bern and research group leader at Eawag,
has been chairing the Forum for Climate and Global
Change of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences
since 2022. “I am looking forward to continuing the
dialogue between science, society and politics,” says
Ingold. In Switzerland’s political system, it is difficult to
bring about rapid change. On the other hand: “With our
experience in participatory processes and dialogues
across many levels, we have, however, excellent instruments
to strengthen exchange.”
Raoul Schaffner, Eawag
Raoul Schaffner, Eawag
Damien Bouffard
Karin Ingold