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ORCID 0000-0002-7227-0646

Twitter: @MWISchmidt

Teacher of the Hour 2020 (student election) 

Advisory Board of the National Hub of European Joint Program Soil (2020-  )

Program Director for five Bachelor and Master programs at the of the Department of Geography UZH (2018-2020)

Member of the Swiss National Research Council, Division II Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences (2011-2015)

Chair Switzerland in the European Science Foundation MOLTER program (2008-2013)

Deep C: Deep soil carbon cycling in a warming world – the molecular perspective. (Swiss National Science Foundation 2017-2023)

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Education

Univ. Bochum, Germany: MSc Geography (1985-1991), MSc Geology (1988-1993), PhD Geosciences, Dr. rer. nat. (1994-1997).

Univ. Cologne, Germany: Tenure track eligibility, venia legendi for Geography, Habilitation (2001)

Employment

1992–1993         Environmental Consultant

1994–1996         Research Assistant  (Univ. Bochum, Soil Science, Germany)

1996–1998        Research Assistant (Technical Univ. Munich, Soil Science, Germany)

1998–2000         Postdoc (Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena, Germany)

2000–2002         Research Assistant (Univ. Cologne, Geography, Germany)

2002–               Professor for Physical Geography at the University of Zurich: Assistant Prof. (2002), Associate Prof. (2006), Full Professor (2014)