CV

Head of the Department of Hydrogeology and Geothermy

GEOTEST Ltd (Switzerland)

2023-11 to present

‘Modelling groundwater flow, solutes and heat transport, performing GIS analysis and spatial modelling, developing conceptual tools and approaches.’

Hydrogeologist and modeler

GEOTEST Ltd (Switzerland)

2021-11 to present

‘Modelling groundwater flow, solutes and heat transport, performing GIS analysis and spatial modelling, developing conceptual tools and approaches.’

Groundwater protection specialist

Office for water and waste of the canton of Bern (Switzerland)

2019-04 to 2021-10

‘Responsible for groundwater protection in the canton of Bern, managed groundwater prospection, advised municipalities and water supply companies’

Water supply engineer

Office for water and waste of the canton of Bern (Switzerland)

2017-04 to 2019-04

‘Enforced public water supply, support and approved general water supply planing and initiated the regionalisation of the water supply’

Postdoctoral research fellow in Geosciences

Applied and Environmental Geology, University of Basel (Switzerland)

2017-06 to 2017-12

‘Quantifying scour depth in a straightened gravel-bed river with ground-penetrating radar’

Supervision by Prof. Dr. P. Huggenberger

Postdoctoral research fellow in Geological Sciences

Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University (USA)

2015-10 to 2017-03

‘Uncertainty quantification in subsurface flow problems: development of a Bayesian framework considering uncertain data and hydraulic boundary conditions’

Supervision by Prof. Dr. J. Caers

PhD in Geosciences

Applied and Environmental Geology, University of Basel (Switzerland)

2011-03 to 2015-06

‘Incorporating sedimentological observations, hydrogeophysics and conceptual knowledge to constrain 3D numerical heterogeneity models of alluvial systems’

Supervision by Prof. Dr. P. Huggenberger

Master of Science in Environmental Engineering

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ, Switzerland)

2007-09 to 2009-09

Specialities: urban water management & water resources management

Master thesis: representativity of groundwater monitoring (supervision by Prof. Dr. F. Stauffer and Dr. H.-J. Hendricks Franssen)

Erasmus exchange year

Technische Universität München (Germany)

2006-10 to 2007-08

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Sitzerland)

2004-09 to 2007-08