Our team

Prof. Markus Stoffel

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.

Dr. Simon Allen

Dr. Simon Allen

Scientific collaborator

Julia Aguilera Rodriguez

Julia Aguilera Rodriguez

Research Assistant

Dr. Juan Ballesteros-Canovas

Dr. Juan Ballesteros-Canovas

Scientific Guest — MNCN Madrid

Prof. Martin Beniston

Prof. Martin Beniston

Honorary Professor

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Dr. François Blondel

Scientific collaborator

Dr. Enora Bruley

Dr. Enora Bruley

Post-Doc

Dr. Christophe Corona

Dr. Christophe Corona

Scientific Collaborator

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Dr. Manon Farvacque

Assistant-Lecturer

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Dr. Adrien Favillier

Assistant-Lecturer

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Dr. Loic Francon

scientific guest — Univ. of Bonn

Dr. Sébastien Guillet

Dr. Sébastien Guillet

Scientific Collaborator

Prof. Helene Hewitt

Prof. Helene Hewitt

Invited Professor

Elias Huland

Elias Huland

Research Assistant

Dr. Jérome Lopez-Saez

Dr. Jérome Lopez-Saez

Senior Lecturer

Prof. Silvia Piccinelli

Prof. Silvia Piccinelli

Scientific Guest — Franklin Univ.

Dr. Mario Rohrer

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

Dr. Alberto Spadotto

Researcher

Anna Tagliaferri

Anna Tagliaferri

Research Assistant — Internship

Ongoing PhD students

Chandani Bhandari

Chandani Bhandari

PhD student

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Sandra Belin-Gorsic

PhD student

Mattias Coullie

Mattias Coullie

PhD Student

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Gary Lynam

PhD student

Nicole Swaney

Nicole Swaney

PHD Student

Yan Zhong

Yan 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

Former collaborators

  • Jogscha Abderhalden – PhD Student of Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL)
  • Dr. Vicotrine Castex
  • 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. Karolina Janecka
  • Dr. Neema Kitasho
  • Dr. Veronika Kuznetsova
  • Dr. Melaine Le Roy — Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France
  • Prof. Jaime Madrigal-Gonzalez — University of Salamanca, Spain
  • Dr. Peter Mani
  • Dr. Verruska Muccione — WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
  • Dr. Alberto Muñoz-Torrero Manchado — Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
  • 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. Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva — Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Dr. Elnur Safarov — Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
  • Dr. Simone SchauweckerUniversidad de La Serena, Chile
  • Dr. Tobias Schwestermann
  • Dr. Daniel Trappmann — Bayerische Landesansalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft, Germany
  • Dr. Georg von Arx — WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
  • Dr. Nana Wang
  • Dr. Guoxiong Zheng — Lanzhou University, China
  • Dr. Yihua Zhong