Sabine Flury
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Dr Sabine Flury Sabine Flury
Ancienne collaboratrice de l'Institut F.-A. Forel, Chercheuse invitée
Former collaborator of Institute F.-A. Forel
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Anthropogenic impacts and climate forcing on aquatic ecosystem functioning and biodiversity
- Carbon degradation, sequestration and emission pathways in aquatic systems
- Carbon quality effects on C-cycling
- Oxygen and nutrient cycling in sediments and water column
- Terrestrial-aquatic system linkages
EDUCATION:
2004 - 2008: | Dr. of Sciences in Environmental Sciences – focus aquatic Ecology (Eawag/ETHZ, Switzerland) with Prof. Mark O. Gessner. Subject: Carbon fluxes in a freshwater wetland under simulated global change: litter decomposition, microbes and methane emissions. |
1996 - 2002: | Diploma in biology (University of Basel, Switzerland). Major in plant physiology with Prof. Manfred Heinlein (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland): Plant host factors interacting with Tobacco mosaic virus movement protein. |
1999: | Degree project in plant physiology (with Prof. Janet F. Bornman, Lund University, Sweden): Effects of UV-B radiation and Cd on Brassica napus seedlings. |
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
2013 – Present: | Postdoc Mobility Stipend Fellow (SNSF) at IGB-Berlin and Faculty of Science at University of Geneva. “Influence of gas bubbles on porewater exchange at sediment water interface” (Hosts: Dr. Katrin Premke, IGB-Berlin; Prof. Vera Slaveykova, Institut F.-A. Forel, Geneva). |
2012 – 2013: | Postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Katrin Premke (Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries – IGB). “C-turnover in kettle holes” |
2011 – 2012: | Guest scientist with Prof. Ronnie N. Glud (Institute of Biology, NordCEE, SDU Odense, Denmark). “CH4 emissions from sediments”. |
2011 – 2012: | External staff at the Greenland Climate Research Center (Nuuk, Greenland). |
2009 – 2011: | Postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Bo B. Jørgensen (Center for Geomicrobiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark).”BALTIC GAS – CH4 fluxes in Baltic Sea sediments”. |
2004: | Internship at the Dept. of Cell and Organism Biology (Lund University, Sweden). “Spider eyes adapted to dim light”. |
2002 – 2003: | Research assistant at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Novartis, Basel, Switzerland). “Proteins involved in DNA repair mechanisms”. |
1999 – 2001: | Internship at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Novartis, Basel, Switzerland). “Tobacco mosaic virus”. |
MAJOR RESEARCH CRUISES AND FIELD CAMPAIGNS
- India (Tamil Nadu) – March/April 2014: Tasks: Gas flux measurements, Respiration measurements, water sampling in Lake Thimmapuram.
- Monthly field campaigns in kettle holes in Uckermark (NE Germany) – 2013/2014. Tasks: Campaign leader. C-fluxes in kettle holes.
- RV Maria S. Merian in Baltic Sea – August 2010: Tasks: Coring, CH4 sampling and pore water chemistry.
- Boat Susanna A in Aarhus Bay – October 2009 and May 2010: Tasks: Coring, CH4 sampling, pore water chemistry, sulfate reduction rate measurements.
- RV Oceania in Gdansk Bay – November 2009: Tasks: Team leader of the biogeochemistry group. Sediment sampling (Rumohr Lot and Gravity Core) pore water sampling for CH4, SO4 2-, solid phase C and N, sulfate reduction rate measurements.
- RV Aranda – April 2009: Tasks: Sediment sampling for biogeochemical data (focus on pore water chemistry and CH4) in the Baltic Sea.
- River Saar – August 2010. Tasks: coring and water sampling for CH4emissions in River Saar.
- Buksefjord (Greenland) – June 2011. Tasks: CH4 sampling and analysis of water and sediment samples.
- River Schwentine (Germany) – August 2011. Tasks: Campaign leader. CH4 fluxes (water air interface and sediment-water interfae) from the River Schwentine.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013 – Present: | Supervising master’s student (Jael Brüning). |
2005 – Present: | Supervising and co-supervising 8 internship students (Thomas Neuenschwander, Sabina Kaeppeli, Jürg Logue, Aleksandar Ivanowski, Sanja Zlatanovic, Spela Kosir, Marjolyne Morales Fontalvo, Amanda Cheang). |
2012: | Teaching assistant for “Microbiology laboratory course” (course BB509) at SDU, Odense. |
2005 – 2008: | Teaching assistant in several practical courses at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) |
OUTREACH TO THE PUBLIC
2014: | Movie for Fast Forward Science 2014: “The C-Team: Chasing the invisible”. Project management: Katrin Premke, Core-Team: Katrin Attermeyer, Sabine Flury, Peter Fiener, Jayakumar Renganathan, Kristin Steger, Arya V. |
AWARDED FELLOWSHIPS
- Mobility fellowship for advanced researchers by the Swiss National Science Foundation (100’000 CHF) (June 2013-May 2015)
- Mobility fellowship for prospective researchers by the Swiss National Science Foundation (44’000 CHF) (February 2010-January 2011).