One of the most exciting aspects of working at the interfacebetween fluid mechanics, organism ecology, and oceanography is the diverse set of skills and tools that can contribute to the advancement of our knowledge. This is reflected in the composition of our group, which includes engineers, physicists, mathematicians, microbiologists, and ecologists.
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The Stocker lab team
Roman Stocker
Principal Investigator
Research Focus:
Fluid dynamics, environmental microfluidics, marine microbial ecology
Office: HIF D 93.1
romanstocker@ethz.ch
CV
Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez
Research Affiliate – PI SEP Group
Research Focus:
Transport and reaction phenomena in subsurface, multiphase systems, microfluidics and field-scale experimentation
Office: HIF E 16.1
jjimenez@ethz.ch
joaquin.jimenez@eawag.ch
https://sepgroup.ethz.ch/
Eleonora Secchi
Senior Scientist – PI BioMatter Microfluidics
Research Focus:
Optical techniques applied to flow visualization at the microscale, microfluidics, active suspension and biofilm
Office: HIF D 91.2
secchi@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
https://biom2.ethz.ch/
Luiz da Silva
Senior Researcher
Research Focus:
Ecohydraulics, hydropower, fish and flow interactions, freshwater ecology, habitat modelling
Office: HIF D 22.1
lumartins@ethz.chhttps://n.ethz.ch/~lumartins/
Jonasz Slomka
Senior Researcher – Ambizione Fellow
Research Focus:
BioEncounters – encounters between microorganisms in space and time
Office: HIF D 22.1
slomka@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
https://n.ethz.ch/~jslomka/
Johannes Keegstra
SENIOR RESEARCHER
Research Focus:
Microbial diversity, oceanic carbon cycle, growth and motility in oligotrophic environments
Office: HIF D 91.1
keegstra@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Matthias Willmann
Lecturer
Co-founder and partner at Groundwater Scientific GmbHLecturer at ETH Zurich
willmann@ifu.baug.ethz.chhttps://groundwaterscientific.ch/
Russell Naisbit
Scientific Editor
naisbit@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Elisabetta Vannoni Thäler
Scientific Program Manager (PriME)
Office: HIF D 29
evannoni@ethz.ch
https://www.primecollaboration.org/
Ela Burmeister
Lab Manager
Office: HIF D 91.2
elas@ethz.ch
Joëlle Robinson
Administrative Assistant
Office: HIF D 27.2
joeller@ethz.ch
Samuel Charlton
Postdoctoral Researcher – Directly supervised by Eleonora Secchi
Research Focus:
Soft matter, rheology and hydraulic resistance of multicellular bacterial communities
Office: HIF D 91.1
scharlton@ethz.ch
Stefano Ugolini
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus:
Microfabrication, microfluidic systems for studying cellular dynamics
Office: HIF D 22.2
gugolini@ethz.ch
Richard Henshaw
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus:
Marine microbial interactions, chemotaxis, biophysics, microfluidic systems
Office: HIF E 14.2
rhenshaw@ethz.ch
Mathieu Forget
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus:
Biophysics of microbial interactions, motility and chemotaxis, symbiosis, eco-evolutionary processes
Office: HIF D 20.2
mforget@ethz.ch
Estelle Clerc
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus:
In situ microfluidics for marine microbial ecology and chemotaxis, microbial community dynamics
Office: HIF E 14.2 clerc@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
www.cellx.ch
Tommaso Redaelli
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus:
Space time effect on bacterial community metabolism
Office: HIF D 22.2
tredaelli@ethz.ch
Elisa Romanelli
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus:
Biochemical oceanography, particle-bacteria interactions, biological carbon pump
Office: HIF D 20.2
eromanelli@ethz.ch
Pauline Roux
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus:
In situ microfluidics for marine microbialchemotaxis, microbial ecology, microbialcommunity dynamics
Office: HIF E 14.2
paroux@ethz.ch
Fabienne Kurt
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus:
Characterization and engineering of microbial consortia for pollutant degradation, with a focus on bioprocess design and scale-up
Office: HIF E 14.2
fkurt@ethz.chwww.cellx.ch
Ariel Chazan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus:
Microbial light-harvesting
Office: HIF D 22.2
achazan@ethz.ch
Juanita Lara Gutierrez
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Bacterial physiology and systems biology
Office: HIF D 11
ljuanita@student.ethz.ch
Robert Naudascher
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Fish in flow, anthropogenic habitat disturbance, hydro- and thermopeaking
Office: HIF D 11
naudascher@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Giovanni Savorana
Doctoral Student – Directly supervised by Eleonora Secchi
Research Focus:
Effects of flow on biofilm formation and bacterial transport, microfluidics
Office: HIF D 11
savorana@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Dieter Baumgartner
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Marine Microbiology, quantitative single-cell analysis, quantitative phase imaging, tomographic imaging
Office: HIF D 11
baumgartner@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Oliver Müller
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Metabolic size scaling, marine phytoplankton and phytoplankton-bacteria communities, quantitative single cell analysis, single cell activity and amp, mass measurements
Office: HIF D 11
mueller@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Patryk Nienaltowski
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
3D tracking of microbes, quantitative phase imaging, bacteria-phytoplankton interactions, marine microbiology
Office: HIF D 11
patryk.nienaltowski@lynceetec.com
Maximilian Stoll
Doctoral Student – Directly supervised by Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez
Research Focus:
Chemotaxis in porous media, subsurface flow and transport
Office: HIF D 11
smaximilian@student.ethz.ch
Sophie Zweifel
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Marine biochemistry, marine phytoplankton calcification / biomineralization, bacteria-phytoplankton interactions
Office: HIF D 11
szweife@ethz.ch
Riccardo Foffi
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Bacterial movement ecology, chemotaxis, bacteria-phytoplankton interactions
Office: HIF D 11
rfoffi@ethz.ch
Edoardo Mollica
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Phyllosphere microbiome, microfluidics, bacterial trapping and confinement on rough surfaces
Office: HIF D 11
emollica@ethz.ch
Matti Zbinden
Doctoral Student – Directly supervised by Jonasz Slomka
Research Focus:
Quantification of microbial encounters
Office: HIF D 11
mazbinden@ethz.ch
Valerio Anelli
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Marine microbial ecology, chemotaxis, in-situ microfluidics
Office: HIF D 11
vanelli@student.ethz.ch
Joël Wittmann
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Fish response to flow alteration, hydropeaking, modelling aquatic habitat connectivity
Office: HIF D 11
joelw@ethz.ch
Isobel Short
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Networks of symbioses on coral reefs, motility and chemotaxis, marine microbial interactions
Office: HIF D 11
ishort@ethz.ch
Zahra Hajian
Doctoral Student – Directly supervised by Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez
Research Focus:
Bacterial biofilms in porous media, biofilm dynamics, fluid dynamics
Office: HIF D 11
zhajian@ethz.ch
Luis Habersetzer
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Influence of climate change on fish movement patterns in the Swiss Rhine-Aare River network using acoustic telemetry
Office: HIF D11
lhabersetzer@ethz.ch
Ina Damm
Doctoral Student
Research Focus:
Office: HIF D11indamm@ethz.ch
Former lab members
- Kang Soo Lee (Senior Researcher, now Associate Professor at UNIST, South Korea)
- Frédéric de Schaetzen (Postdoc, now Specialist in terrestrial and aquatic ecology at KWO, Oberhasli)
- Roberto Pioli (Ph.D. Student)
- Carrara Francesco (Senior Researcher)
- Zachary Landry (Senior Researcher, now Senior Research Associate at University of Southern California, USA)
- Clara Martinez-Pérez (Postdoc)
- Uria Alcolombri (Senior Researcher, now Senior Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
- Pratchaya Pramoj Na Ayutthaya (Ph.D. Student)
- Dorothee Kurz (Ph.D. Student, now environmental process engineer at Oxyle, Zurich)
- Francois Peaudecerf (Postdoc, now Chair Professor Junior at Université de Rennes)
- Jeanette Wheeler(Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
- Ulrike Pfreundt (Postdoc, now Co-Founder at rrreefs, Switzerland)
- Cherry Gao (Ph.D. Student, now Research & Innovation Strategy at Asahi Quality & Innovation, Japan)
- Jen Nguyen (Ph.D. Student, now Postdoc at MIT alm lab, Cambridge)
- Noele Norris (Ph.D. Student, now Postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley)
- Vicente Fernandez (Senior Researcher, now Vice President of Data Science at PhAST inc., Zurich)
- Mehdi Salek (Postdoc, now Lead Instructor at MIT, Cambridge)
- Lars Beherendt (Postdoc, now Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Uppsala)
- Bennett Lambert (Ph.D. Student, now Data Scientist at PIERER Innovation, Wels)
- Anupam Sengupta (Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at University of Luxembourg)
- Kwangmin Son (Postdoc, now Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at PhAST, Boston)
- Yutaka Yawata (Postdoc, now Associate Professor at University of Tsukuba, Japan)
- Roberto Rusconi (Senior Researcher, now Associate Professor at Humanitas University, Milan)
- Douglas Richard Brumley (Postdoc, now Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at University Melbourne)
- Steve Smirga (Senior Researcher, now Senior Scientist, Biology Lead at PhAST, Boston)
- Gabriel Juarez (Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois)
- Filipo Menolascina (Postdoc, now Professor at University of Edinburgh)
- Andrew Babbin (Postdoc, nowAssociate Professor at MIT, Cambridge)
- Tanvir Ahmed (Ph.D. Student, now Assistant Professor at Bangladesh University)
- Marcos (Ph.D. Student, now Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
- William ‘Mack’ Durham (Ph.D. Student, now Senior Lecturer in Biological Physics at University of Sheffield)
- King Yung Yick (Ph.D. Student, now working in Finance)
- Kolja Kindler (postdoc, now group leader at the German Aerospace Center, Cologne)
- John Taylor (Postdoc, now Professor at Cambridge University)
- Arezoo Ardekani (Postdoc, now Professor at Purdue University, Indiana)
- Justin Seymour (Postdoc, now Professor at the University of Technology Sydney)
- Jeffrey Guasto (Postdoc, now Associate Professor at Tufts University, Massachusetts)
- Hongchul Jang (postdoc, now engineer at Samsung Corp., Korea)
- Michael Barry (Postdoc, now Senior Managing Engineer at Exponent, Massachusetts)
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