Group leader
Eliza received her Bachelor degree in Antarctic Science from the University of Tasmania in 2008 and her PhD in Atmospheric Science from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in 2012. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, Empa and the University of Innsbruck, before joining ETHZ‘s Swiss Data Science Center in 2020. In 2024, Eliza will move to the University of Bern to begin as Associate Professor in the Department of Climate and Environmental Physics and Director of the Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat high altitude research stations.
Postdocs
Phillip Agredazywczuk joined the SDSC in July 2023 to work on the N2OSSA project, focussing on both instrument development and the application of programming, data science and machine learning for isotopic data interpretation. Phillip completed his PhD in Environmental Science at the University of Reading in 2023, with the topic “Nitrogen cycling in calcareous fen peatlands: stresses, controls and variability”.
PhD students
Turry Ouma joined the SDSC in July 2022 in a joint PhD position with ETHZ to work on the N2OSSA project. Her research is focused on the application of machine learning and data analytics in environmental science. Before her PhD program, Turry was a senior research associate in data science at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture within the sub-Saharan Africa region. Turry holds an MSc in Research Methodology with a focus on statistics and biometrics from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.
Elena Stoll is a PhD student at the University of Innsbruck working on the NitroTrace project. Previously she completed a Bachelor degree in Process and Environmental Engineering at the HTWG Konstanz and a MSc in Atmospheric Science / Meteorology at the University of Innsbruck.