Dr. Stéphane Affolter
Wissenschaftlicher MitarbeiterWissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Bernoullistrasse 30/32
4056
Basel
Schweiz
Research Interest
Having an extensive background in earth and climate science, water isotopes in the hydrological cycle and their use for past climate reconstructions are my main interest. My current research focuses on the use of speleothems as climate archive containing water entrapped in micrometric size fluid inclusions, a valuable witness of past precipitation water. I developed a method to extract this water and accurately analyse its hydrogen and oxygen isotope composition using laser spectroscopy. Combined with isotope monitoring in modern precipitation and percolation water in caves, comprehensible climate and environmental reconstructions can thus be produced.
Professional Experience
| since 2020 | Research associate, University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences, Switzerland |
| 2019-2020 | Postdoc, University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences, Switzerland |
| 2015-2019 | Postdoc, Technical support, High Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat Foundation, Bern, Switzerland |
| 2011- 2015 | PhD thesis, University of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland |
| 2004-2010 | Geologist, Karakas & Français SA, Geotechnical Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2003 | Traineeship, Statoil, Stavanger, Norway |
Education
| 2011- 2015 | PhD of Science in Climate Sciences, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 1998 - 2003 | Diplom (MSc) in Earth Sciences, Geological Institute, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland |