Our lab hosts a diverse group of enthusiastic scientists, with a broad expertise and knowledge. The different backgrounds, including field ecologists, theoreticians, and molecular ecologists, are a strength of our lab and provide a productive working atmosphere.
Head of Group
Administrative Assistants
Senior Scientists, Research Assistants and Postdocs
PhD Students
Lab Technicians, Teaching Staff and Associates
Undergraduate Students and Interns
Lab Alumni already dispersed
- Dr. Rebecca Oester (PhD student) – October 2020 to October 2024
- Dr. Sabine Güsewell (Senior Postdoc) – October 2021 to June 2024
- Samuel Hürlemann (technician) – August 2016 to April 2024 – now at ETHZ Nexus personalized health technologies
- Xhesida Ajvazi (MSc student) – January 2023 to February 2024 – now at ARNAL
- Franziska Cremer (MSc student) – February 2023 to January 2024 – Terraviva
- Qing Fu (MSc student) – February 2023 to January 2024
- Dr. Luis L. Gilarranz (Postdoc/Ambizione fellow) – January 2018 to December 2023 – now postdoc in lab of Dr. Francesco Pomati
- Remo Wüthrich (MSc student, then Research Associate) – January 2017 to December 2023 – now at gutwasser GmbH
- Esther Premate (visiting PhD student) – November 2022 to December 2022 – University of Ljubljana
- Yan Zhang (visiting PhD student) – December 2022 to November 2023 – Nanjing University
- Heineman Niklas (visiting PhD student) – September 2022 to November 2022 – University of Potsdam
- Nadine Locher (Technician) – August 2021 to October 2023 – now BSc student at ETHZ
- Ana Sofia Schneider Bruch (MSc student, Research Assistant) – November 2022 to September 2023 – now at Vogelwarte
- Dr. Helen Kurkjian (Postdoc) – January 2021 to August 2023 – now at Northeastern University
- Dr. Jeanine Brantschen (MSc student, then PhD student) – January 2018 to June 2023 – Lab Project Manager SimplexDNA
- Andrea Patrignani (Project-based Technician) – March to May 2023 – now at Integra Biosciences
- Sindhura Stothra Bhashyam (Field Assistant) – March 2023
- Dr. Hsi-Cheng Ho (Postdoc) – November 2020 to November 2022 – now Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University
- Eliane Hirt (MSc student) – February 2022 to October 2022 – now at Oekobüro.ch
- Evelin Pandiamakkal (Field Assistant) – May to August 2022 – now at University of Zurich
- Nicolò Tartini (Field Assistant) – April 2022 to October 2022 – now PhD student at University of Bern
- Nikola Vulin (Zivi) – April 2022 to May 2022 – Machine Learning Engineer at Nautilus Inc.
- Andrin Krähenbühl (Scientific Assistant) – June 2018 to April 2022 – now head of Fisheries Advisory Service FIBER
- Angela Studer (MSc Student) – February 2021 to March 2022 – now PhD student at Agroscope
- Francesca Cerroti (MSc student) – January 2021 to February 2022 – now PhD student at SUPSI
- Jessica Colombo (MSc student) – September 2020 to August 2021 – now Intern at SUPSI
- Ramona Petrig (Intern) – June 2021 to August 2021
- Dr. Felix Moerman (PhD student) – January 2017 to May 2021 – now SNSF postdoc at University of Edinburgh
- Anouk Petitpierre (Internship) – February/March 2021 – now PhD student at STI
- Dr. Lynn Govaert (Postdoc) – May 2018 to December 2020 – now Junior Research Group Leader and Emmy Noether Fellow at IGB Berlin
- Sarah Bollina (Student Research Assistant) – September to November 2020 – now doing MSc at Lund University
- Dr. Claire Jacquet (Postdoc) – September 2017 to October 2020 – now CNRS researcher at Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier and University of Montpellier, France
- Špela Borko (visiting PhD student) – August to October 2020 – PhD student at University of Ljubljana
- Bahar Yildirim (visiting MSc student) – January to December 2020
- Dr. Morgane Brosse (Postdoc) – January to July 2020 – thereafter working at BAFU/FOEN, now back in Altermatt lab as Project Coordinator BGB
- Dr. Elvira Mächler (Semester student, MSc student, scientific assistant, PhD student) – September 2011 to February 2020 – now Postdoc at University of Bern
- Franziska Wolf (Research Internship) – January to February 2020 – now MSc studies at UZH
- Nicole Bongni (MSc student) – January 2019 to January 2020 – now at Suter von Känel Wild – Planer und Architekten AG.
- Eilísh Richards (Msc student) – January 2019 to January 2020 – now Journal Publishing Manager – Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Teddy Nakato (MSc student) – January 2019 to January 2020
- Dr. Isabelle Gounand (Postdoc) – February 2015 to December 2019 – now CNRS researcher (CR) at the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris
- Heng Zhang (visiting scientist from Peking University) – October 2019 to December 2020 – now back in Altermatt lab for a PhD
- Géraldine Keat (Research Internship) – November and December 2019 – now Life science Research Professional at Stanford University
- Tianna Peller (visiting PhD student) – June and July 2019 – PhD student at McGill University
- Dr. Chelsea J. Little (PhD student) – November 2014 to June 2019 – now Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Angela Jenny (MSc student) – July 2018 to June 2019 – Project Engineer Basler & Hofmann, Zurich, Switzerland
- Dr. Kristy Deiner (Research Associate) – June 2018 to February 2019 – now Assistant Professor and ERC Starting Grant holder at ETH Zurich
- Manja Schleich (Student Assistant) – November 2018 to December 2018 – Scientific Assistant at Agrofutura (Ecological Consultancy), Brugg, Switzerland
- Dr. Rubén del Campo Gonzales (visiting Postdoc) September 2018 to November 2018 – Senior Postdoc at University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Xing Xing (Research Assistant) – November 2017 to November 2018
- Kathrin Holenstein (MSc student/Scientific Assistant) – January 2017 to September 2018 – now PhD student at CEFE in Montpellier, France
- Julian Stauffer (Research Internship) – June 2018 to September 2018 – now doing a PhD at GEOMAR
- Olaf Rodrigues (Semester Student) – May 2018 to July 2018 – now doing a MSc at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Prof. Dr. Mary O’Connor (Sabbatical Guest) – August 2017 to July 2018 – Professor at University of British Columbia, Canada
- Simon Benateau (Research Associate) – September 2017 to May 2018 – Project leader at Muséum national d’Historie naturelle, Paris, France
- Dr. Emanuel A. Fronhofer (Postdoc) – April 2013 to December 2017 – now CNRS researcher at Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier, France
- Dr. Eric Harvey (Postdoc) – February 2015 to August 2017 – now Professor at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Lynn Govaert (visting PhD student) – May 2017 to July 2017 – University of Leuven – thereafter back in the Altermatt lab as a postdoc
- Martina Torquato (ehem. Ramel) (MSc student) – November 2015 to December 2016 – now now Naturwissenschaftliche Fachspezialistin at Stadtforstamt Baden
- Dr. Cene Fišer (visting scientist) – September to December 2016 – University of Ljubljana
- Dr. Andrea Giometto (PhD student, Postdoc) – October 2011 to September 2016 – now Assistant Professor at Cornell University
- Sereina Gut (Technician) – October 2015 to August 2016 – now MSc student (Biomedicince) at UZH
- Dr. Maslin Osathanunkul (visiting scientist) – May to June 2016 – lecturer at Chiangmai University
- Fabienne Fässler (ehem. Santschi) (MSc student) – September 2015 to May 2016 – now Naturwissenschaftliche Fachspezialistin at Stadtforstamt Baden, Switzerland
- Simon Flückiger (Zivi) – September 2015 to May 2016 – now MSc student at ZHAW
- Vid Svara (visiting scientist) – October 2015 to January 2016 – now PhD student at Helmholtz Leipzig, Germany
- Katharina Kaelin (MSc student) – September 2014 to December 2015 – now Scientist at the Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
- Pravin Ganesanandamoorthy (lab technician) – September 2013 to July 2015 – now student at ZHAW
- Dr. Kristy Deiner (Postdoc) – October 2012 to June 2015 – thereafter postdoc at Cornell University (website)
- Nicolai Nitsche (MSc Student) – May 2014 to October 2014 – now in pharmaceutical research (Abbvie)
- Dr. Mathew Seymour (PhD student) – May 2011 to October 2014 – Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong, China
- Dr. Jan Klecka (SCIEX Postdoc) – August 2013 to August 2014 – now junior group leader at Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Dr. Francesco Carrara (PhD student) – January 2011 to December 2013 – now postdoc at MIT and ETH with Roman Stocker, Zurich
- Lea Caduff (biology apprentice) – March 2013 to August 2013 – now a technician at Eawag, Switzerland
- Roman Alther (M.Sc. project student) – March 2012 to May 2012 – back again in the Altermatt lab for PhD and now as Senior Research Assistant (website)
- Marta Reyes (research technician) – January 2012 to May 2012 – now a technician at Eawag, Switzerland