Professorships

... and groups at ETH Zurich, that are interested in forestry, wood sciences and landscape management and contribute to our curriculum. Information on current projects of each group can be found on their individual websites.

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Some of our work and projects are also published in the external page Swiss Forestry Journal (SFJ)

Overview over the professorships and groups that research and teach in the field of forest and landscape

Forest Ecology

- Forest dynamics

- Succession

- Dendrochronology

Prof. Harald Bugmann
Forest Resources Management

- Decision support systems to manage forests under risk

- Multi-criteria planning

- New approaches to inventory forest resources

Prof. Verena Griess
Ecosystem Management

- Forest changes due to human influence

- Influence of landscape changes on forests

- Transdisciplinary research and public relations

Prof. Jaboury Ghazoul
(Photo: F. Kleinschroth and S. Spratley, ATEC-3D)
Silviculture

- Silviculture
- Multifunctional forest management
- Climate-adaptive forest management

Dr. Mathieu Lévesque
Forest Growth and Global Change

- Consequences of climate change
- Tree growth
- Forest regeneration

Prof. Andreas Rigling
Ecosystem-Ecology

"I am interested in the linkages between different ecosystem compartments and how they build an interaction network, which is the basis of ecosystem functioning."

Prof. Arthur Gessler
Global Ecosystem Ecology

- Fundamental and applied ecology

- Global focus

- AI and mapping

Prof. Tom Crowther
Forest Entomology

- Infestation dynamics of bark beetles, effect of natural enemies

- Interactions between host tree herbivores and insect antagonists

- Spatial and temporal biodiversity dynamics

- Effects of forest management on biodiversity

Prof. Martin Gossner
Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution

- Process-based biodiversity modeling
- Development of tools for biodiversity monitoring
- Biodiversity response to global change

Prof. Loïc Pellissier
Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems

- Sustainable landscape transformation

- Digital participation

- Immersive landscapes

Prof. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
(Image: ETH IRL plus)
Dynamic Macroecology

“We develop innovative methods and models, data products, and tools to understand and predict the impact of climate change on species, biodiversity and biomes and to study how biodiversity has evolved.”

Prof. Niklaus Zimmermann (WSL)
Physics of Environmental Systems

- Hydrology

- Geomorphology

- Biogeochemistry

Prof. James Kirchner
Soil Resources

"We focus on soil development and biogeochemical cycles in in understudied regions and areas that are heavily affected by Global Change and soil degradation."

Prof. Sebastian Dötterl
(Photo: Matti Barthel)
Physics of Soils and Terrestrial Ecosystems

"How does water move in soil and plants? We explore the soil, its physical properties, and how they impact terrestrial ecosystems, life in soils, plant growth and stress"

Prof. Andrea Carminati
Natural Resource Policy Group

- Protection and land use policies
- Policy field analysis (focus on forest, water, landscape)
- Actor and social network analysis

Dr. Eva Lieberherr
Timber Structures

- Timber and connections
- Innovative timber constructions
- Fire protection timber construction

Prof. Andrea Frangi
Wood Materials Science

- Wood structure and properties
- Wood modification
- Functional wood materials

Prof. Ingo Burgert