People

New-Stocker-Group-1191One of the most exciting aspects of working at the interface between fluid mechanics, microbial ecology and oceanography is the diverse toolset that can be brought to the table. This is reflected in the composition of our group, which includes engineers, physicists, microbiologists, and bioinformaticians. Interested in joining the group? Send us an email!

Roman Stocker
Principal Investigator
Research Focus: Fluid dynamics, environmental microfluidics, marine microbial ecology
Office: HIF D93.1
romanstocker@ethz.ch
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 E16.1
jjimenez@ethz.ch
joaquin.jimenez@eawag.ch
https://sepgroup.ethz.ch/
Eleonora Secchi
Senior Scientist
Research Focus: Optical techniques applied to flow visualization at the microscale, microfluidics, active suspension and biofilm
Office: HIF D91.2
secchi@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
https://biom2.ethz.ch/
Francesco Carrara
Senior Researcher
Research Focus: Statistical physics, theoretical ecology, biodiversity, experimental microcosms
Office: HIF D91.1
carraraf@ethz.ch
Kang Soo Lee
Senior Researcher
Research Focus: Single cell genomics with high-throughput microfluidic sorting
Office: HIF D91.1
leeka@ethz.ch
Luiz da Silva
Senior Researcher
Research Focus: Ecohydraulics, hydropower, fish and flow interactions, freshwater ecology, habitat modelling
Office: HIF D22.1
lumartins@ethz.ch
https://n.ethz.ch/~lumartins/
Jonasz Slomka
Senior Researcher / Ambizione Fellow
Research Focus: BioEncounters - encounters between microorganisms in space and time
Office: HIF D22.1
slomka@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
https://n.ethz.ch/~jslomka/
Matthias Willmann
Lecturer
Co-founder and partner at Groundwater Scientific GmbH Lecturer at ETH Zurich
willmann@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
https://groundwaterscientific.ch/
Russell Naisbit
Scientific Editor
Office: HIF D27.2
naisbit@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
https://sites.google.com/site/albionscienceediting/home/
Elisabetta Vannoni Thäler
Scientific Program Manager (PriME)
Office: HIF D29
evannoni@ethz.ch
Ela Burmeister
Lab Manager
Office: HIF D91.2
elas@ethz.ch
Joëlle Robinson
Administrative Assistant
Office: HIF D27.2
joeller@ethz.ch
Zachary Landry
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus: Microbial ecology, resource partitioning, succession in microbial systems, advanced imaging
Office: HIF D20.2
landry@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Johannes Keegstra
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus: Microbial diversity, oceanic carbon cycle, growth and motility in oligotrophic environments
Office: HIF D22.2
keegstra@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Samuel Charlton
Postdoctoral Researcher / Directly advised by Eleonora Secchi
Research Focus: Soft matter, rheology and hydraulic resistance of multicellular bacterial communities
Office: HIF D20.2
scharlton@ethz.ch
Clara Martinez-Pérez
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus: Microbial oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, bacteria-phytoplankton interactions, single-cell activity rates, marine nitrogen fixation
Office: HIF D20.2
martinez@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Stefano Ugolini
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus: Microfabrication, microfluidic systems for studying cellular dynamics
Office: HIF D22.2
gugolini@ethz.ch
Richard Henshaw
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus: Marine microbial interactions, chemotaxis, biophysics, microfluidic systems
Office: HIF 22.2
rhenshaw@ethz.ch
Mathieu Forget
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus: Biophysics of microbial interactions, motility and chemotaxis, symbiosis, eco-evolutionary processes
Office: HIF 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 E14.2
clerc@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Tommaso Redaelli
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus: Space time effects on bacterial community metabolism
Office: HIF D22.2
tredaelli@ethz.ch
Elisa Romanelli
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus: Biochemical oceanography, particle-bacteria interactions, biological carbon pump
Office: HIF
eromanelli@ethz.ch
Frédéric de Schaetzen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Focus: Marine microbial ecology, species interactions, microbial diversity, insect ecology, imaging-based solution development
Office: HIF E14.2
deschaetzen@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Roberto Pioli
PhD Student
Research Focus: Bacterial single cell deposition, quantitative single-cell analysis, microbial interactions
Office: HIF D11
pioli@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Juanita Lara Gutierrez
PhD Student
Research Focus: Bacterial physiology and systems biology
Office: HIF D11
ljuanita@student.ethz.ch
Robert Naudascher
PhD Student
Research Focus: Fish in flow, anthropogenic habitat disturbance, hydro- and thermopeaking
Office: HIF D11
naudascher@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Giovanni Savorana
PhD Student / Directly advised by Eleonora Secchi
Research Focus: Effects of flow on biofilm formation and bacterial transport, microfluidics
Office: HIF D11
savorana@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Dieter Baumgartner
PhD Student
Research Focus: Marine Microbiology, quantitative single-cell analysis, quantitative phase imaging, tomographic imaging
Office: HIF D11
baumgartner@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Oliver Müller
PhD 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 D11
mueller@ifu.baug.ethz.ch
Patryk Nienaltowski
PhD Student
Research Focus: 3D tracking of microbes, quantitative phase imaging, bacteria-phytoplankton interactions, marine microbiology
Office: HIF D11
patryk.nienaltowski@lynceetec.com
Maximilian Stoll
PhD Student / Directly advised by Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez
Research Focus: Chemotaxis in porous media, subsurface flow and transport
Office: HIF D11
smaximilian@student.ethz.ch
Sophie Zweifel
PhD Student
Research Focus: Marine biochemistry, marine phytoplankton calcification/biomineralization, bacteria-phytoplankton interactions
Office: HIF D11
szweife@ethz.ch
Riccardo Foffi
PhD Student
Research Focus: Bacterial movement ecology, chemotaxis, bacteria-phytoplankton interactions
Office: HIF D11
rfoffi@ethz.ch
Edoardo Mollica
PhD Student
Research Focus: Phyllosphere microbiome, microfluidics, bacterial trapping and confinement on rough surfaces
Office: HIF D11
emollica@ethz.ch
Matti Zbinden
PhD Student / Directly advised by Jonasz Slomka
Research Focus: Quantification of microbial encounters
Office: HIF D11
mazbinden@ethz.ch
Valerio Anelli
PhD Student
Research Focus: Marine microbial ecology, chemotaxis, in-situ microfluidics
Office: HIF D11
vanelli@student.ethz.ch
Joël Wittmann
PhD Student
Research Focus: Fish response to flow alteration, hydropeaking, modelling aquatic habitat connectivity
Office: HIF D11
joelw@ethz.ch
Isobel Short
PhD Student
Research Focus: Networks of symbioses on coral reefs, motility and chemotaxis, marine microbial interactions
Office: HIF D11
ishort@ethz.ch
Zahra Hajian
PhD Student / Directly advised by Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez
Research Focus: Bacterial biofilms in porous media, biofilm dynamics, fluid dynamics
Office: HIF D11
zhajian@ethz.ch
Tina Dubach
Scientific Assistant
Research Focus: Fish ecology, upstream fish passage, PIT-tag monitoring
Office: HIF E17
tidubach@ethz.ch
Alessia Di Claudio
Visiting PhD Student
Research Focus:
Office: HIF

Former lab members

  • Dorothée Kurz (Ph.D. Student, now environmental process engineer at Oxyle, Zurich)
  • Uria Alcolombri (Postdoc, now Senior Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
  • Pratchaya Pramoj Na Ayutthaya (Ph.D. Student)
  • François 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)
  • Andrew Babbin (Postdoc, now Associate 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)