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CV URS UEHLINGER
Born in 1944 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Contact: urs@uehlinger.info
EDUCATION
Diploma (1973): Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland 1973.
PhD (1980): Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy (ETH) Zurich, Swizerland.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1977 - 1980: Research assistant, at the Department of Limnology, Eawag.
1980 - 2007: Research scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (Eawag), Department of Aquatic Ecology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
1986 - 1987: Visiting scientist at the Idaho State University (Stream Ecology Center, Prof. G.W. Minshall).
Retired since February 2007.
RESEARCH AREAS
1980 - 1986: Primary production and organic matter dynamics in lakes.
Since 1987: Ecosystem metabolism (primary production, respiration) and organic matter dynamics in streams and rivers, stability of lotic ecosystems, and ecology of alpine rivers.
TEACHING
2002 - 2007: Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich.