Gabriela Schaepman-Strub
Associate Professor, Dept. Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Gabriela is interested in the role of the changing biosphere in the Arctic system. With her team she investigates plant strategies and diversity in Arctic ecosystems, their changes and feedbacks with the permafrost and atmosphere through energy, water, and carbon fluxes. Methods range from in situ observational and experimental studies to drone and satellite-based remote sensing and process-based modelling. Her interests further extend to co-production of knowledge with indigenous and local communities and collaboration with artists. She is a co-director of the University of Zurich Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity, current chair of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of the Swiss Polar Institute, and is representing Swiss polar research in several international science-policy frameworks. After research stays at Boston University, Wageningen University, and NASA JPL, she returned to the University of Zurich where she currently holds a chair in Earth System Science.
