Falvio Anselmetti

Head of the research group Sedimentology and adjunct professor at ETH Zurich

At Eawag since 2007

“I have the privilege of being able to make discoveries.” Anyone who sees the geologist giving a lecture soon realizes that Anselmetti wants to share this privilege with others. He demonstrates his capacity for discovery to his students. “Processes are always visible,” says the professor, “if you learn how to read the signs.” For example, the black layer in the sediments of Lake Zurich is not simply a pattern. It provides a record of anthropogenic environmental changes which took place over 100 years ago, when oxygen was depleted at the bottom of the lake as a result of excessive nutrient inputs.

Learn more about Anselmettis research here.