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
Scientific collaborator
Dr. Juan Ballesteros-Canovas
Scientific Guest
Prof. Martin Beniston
Honorary Professor
Dr. François Blondel
Post-Doc
Dr. Victorine Castex
Scientific Guest
Dr. Bruno Colavitto
Post-Doc
Dr. Christophe Corona
Scientific Collaborator
Dr. Manon Farvacque
Post-Doc
Dr. Adrien Favillier
Post-Doc
Dr. Loic Francon
Post-Doc
Dr. Sébastien Guillet
Scientific Collaborator
Dr. Melaine Le Roy
Scientific collaborator
Dr. Jérome Lopez-Saez
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Silvia Piccinelli
POST-DOC
Dr. Adolfo Quesada-Román
Scientific Guest
Lenka Slámová
Lab Manager
Dr. Mario Rohrer
scientific collaborator
Dr. Elnur Safarov
Post-Doc
Dr. Anna Scolobig
Scientific collaborator
Ongoing PhD students
Sandra Belin-Gorsic
PhD student
Neema Kitasho
PhD student
Gary Lynam
PhD student
Peter Mani
PhD student
Alberto Muñoz
PhD student
Jiazhi Qie
PhD student
Guoxiong Zheng
PhD student
Yihua Zhong
PhD student
Ongoing MSc students
- Julia Josselyn Aguilera Rodriguez — Bridges and barriers to building adaptive capacities in mountain regions
- Aleksandar Atanasov — Dynamics of debris flow based on tree rings analysis: A case study from the Garabashi cone in the Russian Caucasus
- Mattias Ian Couille — Regional rockfall risk assessment in the Zermatt valley
- Yenny Alejandra Jimenez Donato — Using botanical evidence to reconstructing extreme flood in the Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala
- Arnaud Keller — Utilisation de méthodes de détection proximale (drone) pour établir les liens entre topographie et productivité des landes arbustives alpines
- Julius Malin — Protestant Views on the Anthropocene: An Explorative Study
- Tomoko Muranaka — Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of massive snow avalanches on the slope affected by the 1720 CE Obergesteln disaster
- Tania Perreira — Intra-individual climate signals and allometric relationships in alpine shrubs: the case of Rhododendron ferrugineum
- Linda Rivera Macedo — Drivers behind international adaptation aid for mountain regions – to what extent recipient needs, recipient merit or donor interest influence aid allocation? — Msc defended in 2021
Former collaborators
- Dr. Olga Churakova — Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Dr. Michael Fellmann — Swiss Re, Zurich, Switzerland
- Dr. Florie Giacona — INRAE, Grenoble, France
- Lianne Gouma
- Prof. Jaime Madrigal-Gonzalez — University of Salamanca, Spain
- Dr. Moe Myint — Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Dr. Marjorie Perraud — ALPIQ, Switzerland
- Dr. Adolfo Quesada-Román — University of Costa-Rica, Costa-Rica
- Dr. Clara Rodriguez-Morata —Lamon-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA
- Prof. Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva — Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Dr. Simone Schauwecker — Universidad de La Serena, Chile
- Dr. Daniel Trappmann — Bayerishe Landesansalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft, Germany
- Dr. Georg von Arx — WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland