Département F.-A. Forel des sciences de l’environnement et de l’eau Département F.-A. Forel des sciences de l’environnement et de l’eau

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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).

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