Welcome to the Doctoral Program in Earth Surface Processes & Paleobiosphere (ESPP)

 

Aims & Disciplines

 

The Doctoral Program Earth Surface Processes & Paleobiology (ESPP) aims in fostering the community of doctoral students and researchers in the fields of sedimentology, stratigraphy, basin analysis, surface processes, limnology, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, paleontology, palecology, environmental geochemistry, biogeosciences, soil sciences and other related disciplines. ESPP provides an interesting and contemporary program of:

 

  • field seminars and courses to foster scientific quality, creativity, and communication within the scientific community as well as with the professional world.
  • courses to promote mobility and soft skills competence.
  • training to promote stutent’s general ability to deal with challenges in contemporary academic, administrative, and business environments.
  • annual meetings to enhance collaboration and synergies between the research groups of the CUSO sites and other doctoral programs (e.g. DPMS).

Funding

Funded by the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale CUSO

Funding of courses, field trips and annual meetings such as SwissSed

The participation in the offered courses, and active participation of individual students in national and international meetings can be subsidised by the ESPP doctoral school.

 

Lastname Firstname University
FOUBERT Anneleen UNIFR President of the ESPP doctoral school
RÜGGEBERG Andres UNIFR Coordinator of the ESPP Doctoral School
ZEYEN Nina UNIGE Representative of the senior staff of UNIGE
ADATTE Thierry UNIL Representative of the senior staff of UNIL
FANTASIA Alicia UNIFR Co-representative of the senior staff of UNIFR
FLEITMANN Dominik UNIBAS Representative of the senior staff of UNIBAS
SPEZZAFERRI Silvia UNIFR Representative of the senior staff of UNIFR
KIPFER Timon UNIBAS Representative of the doctoral students of UNIBAS
SCHMIDT Chantal UNIBE Representative of the doctoral students of UNIBE
ZIMMERLI Géraldine UNIFR Representative of the doctoral students of UNIFR
VINCENT James UNIGE Representative of the doctoral students of UNIGE
KARABEYOGLU Uygar UNIL Representative of the doctoral students of UNIL
ANQUETIN Jérémy UNIFR Representative of the senior staff of JURASSICA
ANSELMETTI Flavio UNIBE Representative of the senior staff of UNIBE