Our team

Prof. Markus Stoffel

Full Professor

The Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA) Chair is headed by Prof. Markus Stoffel and consists of a multidisciplinary team of more than 20 senior researchers, PostDocs, and PhD students, specializing in climatology, paleoclimatology, geomorphology, hydrology, (forest) ecology, social impacts of climate change, natural hazards and risk assessment as well as in UAV-based remote sensing and GIS.

The C-CIA chair is located at the Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of Geneva, and affiliated with the University’s Departments of Earth Sciences and F.-A. Forel for Aquatic Sciences.

Jogscha Abderhalden

Research Assistant

Dr. Simon Allen

Scientific collaborator

Julia Aguilera Rodriguez

Research Assistant

Dr. Juan Ballesteros-Canovas

Scientific Guest

Prof. Martin Beniston

Honorary Professor

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Dr. François Blondel

Post-Doc

Dr. Enora Bruley

Post-Doc

Dr. Victorine Castex

Scientific Guest

Dr. Christophe Corona

Scientific Collaborator

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Dr. Manon Farvacque

Post-Doc

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Dr. Adrien Favillier

Assistant-Lecturer

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Dr. Loic Francon

Post-Doc

Dr. Sébastien Guillet

Scientific Collaborator

Prof. Helene Hewitt

Invited Professor

Dr. Karolina Janecka

Post-Doc

Dr. Veronika Kuznetsova

Post-Doc

Dr. Jérome Lopez-Saez

Senior Lecturer

Tania Perreira

Research Assistant

Prof. Silvia Piccinelli

Scientific Guest

Dr. Adolfo Quesada-Román

Scientific Guest

Dr. Mario Rohrer

scientific collaborator

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Dr. Anna Scolobig

Scientific collaborator

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Lenka Slámová

Lab Manager

Dr. Alberto Spadotto

Researcher

Dr. Tobias Schwestermann

Post-Doc

Ongoing PhD students

Chandani Bhandari

PhD student

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Sandra Belin-Gorsic

PhD student

Mattias Coullie

PhD Student

Dr. Neema Kitasho

Scientific Guest

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Gary Lynam

PhD student

Peter Mani

PhD student

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Alberto Muñoz

PhD student

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Jiazhi Qie

PhD student

Nana Wang

PhD student

Yan Zhong

PhD student

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Yihua Zhong

PhD student

Ongoing MSc students

  • Arnaud Keller — Utilisation de méthodes de détection proximale (drone) pour établir les liens entre topographie et productivité des landes arbustives alpines
  • Anouchka Hofmann — Dendrogeomorphic recontruction of the snow avalanche activity in the Beverin valley, Grison.

Former collaborators

  • Dr. Juan A. Ballesteros Cánovas —Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
  • Dr. Olga Churakova — Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Dr. Bruno Colavitto — CIMA Research Foundation, Switzerland
  • Dr. Michael Fehlmann — Swiss Re, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Dr. Florie Giacona — INRAE, Grenoble, France
  • Dr. Melaine Le Roy — Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France
  • Prof. Jaime Madrigal-Gonzalez — University of Salamanca, Spain
  • Dr. Verruska Muccione — WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
  • Dr. Moe Myint — International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Dr. Marjorie Perroud — ALPIQ, Switzerland
  • Dr. Adolfo Quesada-Román — University of Costa-Rica, Costa-Rica
  • Dr. Clara Rodriguez-Morata —Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA
  • Prof. Silvia Piccinelli — Franklin University, Switzerland
  • Prof. Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva — Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Dr. Elnur Safarov — Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
  • Dr. Simone SchauweckerUniversidad de La Serena, Chile
  • Dr. Daniel Trappmann — Bayerische Landesansalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft, Germany
  • Dr. Georg von Arx — WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
  • Dr. Guoxiong Zheng — Lanzhou University, China