I am a PhD student developing noble gas tracers method in low flow porous media.

I studied Environmental Engineering in the Bachelor at EPFL, and did my Master at ETH in Biogechemistry and Pollutant Dynamics. I am at Eawag in the Environmental Isotope group since 2021 when I started my Master thesis. Since then, it transformed into a PhD at the beginning of 2024.

CO2LPIE - CO2 Long-Term Periodic Injection Experiment

The CO2LPIE project aims to investigate the integrity of caprock at the relevant repository scale (meter to decameters) for CO2 sequestration projects in Switzerland.

As part of this project, I am in charge of constructing and maintaining our gas measurement lines. They allow us to continuously monitor the dissolved gases concentrations in-situ in the rock pore water.

Dissolved gases in Tree sap

Plants and ecosystems are the most important link between the soil (and groundwater) and the atmosphere in terms of both water and carbon exchange. To improve predictions of climate-induced changes on the carbon and hydrological cycles on a global scale, it is essential to gain a more comprehensive understanding of plant phenology and physiology at a finer scale.

In the second project of my PhD, I am developing a method for gas monitoring of various gas species in-situ and in-vivo in trees, to allow simultaneous monitoring of both the carbon and water cycles at the plant scale.