Research groups

Extinctions and anoxic events - Thierry Adatte: An extinction event is a sharp decrease in the diversity and abundance of macroscopic life. Major extinctions are ...

Micropalaeontology and ocean evolution - Peter Baumgartner: The break-up of Pangea gave birth to new oceans. The history of those new oceans can be ...

Magma geochemistry - Anne-Sophie Bouvier: The study of the chemical and isotopic compositions of past and present melts is an important step for a better ...

Structural geology - Jean-Luc Epard: Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories ...

Sedimentology and sediment geochemistry - Karl Föllmi: The interests of our research group are centered on large-scale processes during Earth's history, which ...

Predictive biogeography - Antoine Guisan: Our research group is specialized in predictive habitat distribution modeling, mainly at the level of species, but also ...

Computational tectonics - Stefan Schmalholz: Our research interests are the deformation of rocks at all scales and the structures resulting from this deformation ...

Stable isotope geochemistry - Torsten Vennemann: Stable isotope geochemistry is one of the most powerful methods to study not only the origin and composition ...

Biogeosciences - Eric Verrecchia: Living organisms affect the chemical and physical compositions of the atmosphere, oceans, and solid earth. Similarly, the planet ...

Texture and microsctructure - Pierre Vonlanthen: Structural features in rocks and minerals are one of the few direct sources of information available for the ...