Category: News

New paper on the interplay between structural and hydraulic heterogeneity in fracture networks and its impact on dispersion and mixing in collaboration with Jeffrey Hyman (Los Alamos National Laboratory) published in Water Resources Research.

A new PhD position on microbially induced precipitation in geo-material microfluidics is available in our group. Apply now!

SEP group gets an SNSF Grant to work on solute mixing and chemical reactions in unsaturated porous media. A doctoral position will be advertised soon.

SEP group performed experiments close to the speed of light(!) at the TOMCAT beamline (Swiss Light Source, PSI) -- a collaboration with TOMCAT and EMPA scientists.  

SEP group co-leads an international collaboration, funded by the World Food System Center, on the effects of irrigation modernization in water resources management. A post-doctoral position will be advertised soon.

New paper on the impact of small-scale saline tracer heterogeneity on electrical resistivity in collaboration with Damien Jougnot (CNRS), Tanguy Le Borgne and Yves Méheust (University of Rennes) and Niklas Linde (UNIL) published in Advances Water Resources.

Dr. Erfan Haghighi joined our group in January 2017. Welcome Erfan!

November 14th 2017 Seminar from Prof. Yves Méheust (Geosciences Rennes, France) on ‘foam flows in porous media’

Mayumi Hamada has received the Culmann Prize for her excellent Master's thesis on chemical reactions in unsaturated porous media. Congratulations, Mayumi!

Dorothee Kurz joined our group in September 2016. Welcome Dorothee!