Researchers in the INTERFACES project
Research Fellows
The primary purpose of INTERFACES as an Initial Training Network is to develop young researchers to be outstanding supra-disciplinary scientists. We have 11 Early Stage Researchers (studying for PhDs) and 4 Experienced Researchers (post-docs) within the project.
Early Stage Researchers
ESR1 Amaia Marruedo
Country of origin: Spain
Host institution: Leibnitz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany (Supervisors: Joerg Lewandowski, Gunnar Nuetzmann)
Project: Airborne and ground-based up-scaling of findings on groundwater-surface water interactions at aquifer-lake and aquifer-stream interfaces
ESR2 Marta Antonelli
Country of origin: Italy
Host institution: CRP - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg (Supervisor: Laurent Pfister)
Project: Detection of the onset/cessation of hydrological connectivity in the hillslope-riparian-stream continuum via Thermal IR imagery and terres-trial diatom tracing
ESR3 Tanja Brandt
Country of origin: Germany
Host institution: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Germany (Supervisors: Christian Schmidt, Jan Fleckenstein)
Project: Further developing optical sensing techniques to analyse spatially con-tinuous oxygen distribution at the water-sediment interface
ESR4 Myrto Nikolakopoulou
Country of origin: Greece
Host institution: Naturalea, Spain (Supervisor: Albert Sorolla)
Project: Managing the impact of streambed interface zones on the carbon cycle at catchment scale
ESR5 Kyle Boodoo
Country of origin: Trinidad and Tobago
Host institution: University of Vienna, Austria (Supervisor: Tom Battin)
Project: Effects of hydrogeomorphology and temperature on carbon cycling in stream gravel bars
ESR6 José Gonçalves
Country of origin: Portugal
Host institution: National Institute of Biology, Slovenia (Supervisors: Valentina Turk, Maja Ravnikar, Ion Gutierrez)
Project: Development of methods for detection of viruses in aquatic environments and their interactions with bacteria in biofilms
ESR7 Astrid Harjung
Country of origin: Austria
Host institution: University of Barcelona, Spain (Supervisor: Francesc Sabater)
Project: Developing methodologies/strategies to monitor the effects of hydrological extremes (droughts and floods) on biogeochemical cycling at terrestrial-aquatic interfaces
ESR8 Tim Vaessen
Country of origin: Netherlands
Host institution: Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain (Supervisor: Eugenia Marti)
Project: Development of methods to estimate rates, controlling factors and mechanisms of N cycling processes at different reactive interfaces
ESR9 Viktor Baranov
Country of origin: Ukraine
Host institution: Leibnitz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany (Supervisors: Joerg Lewandowski, Gunnar Nuetzmann)
Project: Hot spots of turnover along ventilated burrows of macrozoobenthos
ESR10 Paul Romeijn
Country of origin: Netherlands
Host institution: University of Birmingham, UK (Supervisors: Stefan Krause, David Hannah, Mike Rivett)
Project: Aquifer-surface water interfaces as hotspots for interconnected carbon and nitrogen cycling and greenhouse gas production
ESR11 Tamara Kolbe
Country of origin: Germany
Host institution: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France (Supervisor: Gilles Pinay)
Project: Quantifying the cumulative effects of nitrogen buffering hotspots at the catchment scale
Experienced Researchers
ER1 Francesco Ciocca
Country of origin:Italy
Host institution: Silixa, UK (Supervisors: Michael Mondanos, Athena Chalari)
Project: FO-DTS and FO-iDAS for distributed heat and acoustic tracing
ER2 Karlie McDonald
Country of origin: Australia
Host institution: University of Birmingham, UK (Supervisors: Stefan Krause, David Hannah, Mike Rivett)
Project: Integrated modeling for up-scaling bio-reactivity at interface hotspots
ER3 Mukundh Balasubramanian
Country of origin: India
Host institution: BioSistemika, Slovenia (Supervisor: Matjaz Hren)
Project: Developing and testing new molecular techniques to evaluate the microbial interactions based on application of real-time PCR methods
ER4 Ben Abbott
Country of origin: USA
Host institution: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France (Supervisor: Gilles Pinay)
Project: The potential of integrated sensor and tracing technologies for identifying large scale impacts of ecohydrological interfaces