Welcome Martina Barandun

We warmly welcome Martina Barandun as Postdoc in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry. She joined the Analytical Chemistry group on 1 October 2018.

Martina Barandun studied Geography at the University of Fribourg, where she also obtained her PhD in the Department of Geosciences. For the latter she worked on transient snowline observations to remotely derive seasonal to sub-seasonal glacier mass balance in the Tien Shan and Pamir mountains of Central Asia. At PSI, Martina Barandun will quantify the concentration of different light absorbing impurities such as black carbon or mineral dust particles in surface snow and ice from various glaciers in Central Chile, to estimate their impact on albedo reduction and accelerated melt. This is a joint project with the Centro de Estudios Cientificos in Valdivia, Chile.