Seven successful PhD students

7 June 2010

In May 2010, seven PhD students, who have carried out most of their doctoral work at Eawag, received their PhD degree on the graduation party at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH). The scientific education of the students is based on the close collaboration of Eawag and ETH Zurich in research and education.

Name-List of the PhDs:

• José Ángel Abreu Castineira
  Dissertation: 10Be in polar ice cores and 14C in tree rings: separation of production and system effects, comparison with past climate changes and implications for solar physics
  Zurich: ETH, 2009
  
  
• Monireh Faramarzi
  Dissertation: Assessment of regional water endowments, crop water productivity, and implications for intra-country virtual water trade in Iran
  Zurich: ETH, 2010
  
  
• Natscha Pasche
  Dissertation: Nutrient cycling and methane production in Lake Kivu
  Zurich: ETH, 2009
  
  
• Merle Richter
  Dissertation: Bioavailability of sulfonamide antimicrobials in soil: dominant sorption mechanisms and effect-based reaction in bacteria
  Zurich: ETH, 2009
  
  
• Linda Roberts
  Dissertation: Arsenic dynamics in groundwater-irrigated and seasonally flooded paddy fields in Bangladesh
  Zurich: ETH, 2009
  
  
• Mariska Ronteltap
  Dissertation: Phosphorus recovery from source-separated urine through the precipitation of struvite
  Zurich: ETH, 2009
  
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• Ronnie Schwede
  Dissertation: Stochastic analysis of contaminant mass fluxes measured in multi-level-well fences
  Zurich: ETH, 2009
  
  

Read more about the graduation party at ETH Zurich (Article in German): “Wie die Spitzensportler”, ETH Life, 25 May 2010.