Tamar Kohn - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 2004 PhD, Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  
• 1999 Diploma (MSc), Environmental Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Current and past positions

• 2023 onwards Full Professor and Director of the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, Environmental Engineering Institute, EPFL, Switzerland
  
• 2016 - 2017 Visiting Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  
• 2014 - present Associate Professor and Director of the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, Environmental Engineering Institute, EPFL, Switzerland
  
• 2010 - present Adjunct Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Switzerland
  
• 2007 - 2014 Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Director of the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, Environmental Engineering Institute, EPFL, Switzerland
  
• 2004 - 2006 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Memberships in panels and boards and reviewing activities (selected)

• 2021 - present Member, Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), research networks commission
  
• 2021 - present Associate editor, Environmental Science & Technology
  
• 2020 - present WHO Expert panel on SARS-CoV2 in sewage
  
• 2014 - present WHO Advisory board, International Scheme to Evaluate Household Water Treatment Technologies
  
• 2014 - 2018 Associate editor, Environmental Sciences: Water Research and Technology
  
• 2010 - present Reviewer for funding agencies in: CH, UK, US, DE, NL, FR

Institutional responsibilities (EPFL; selected)

• 2020 Member, EPFL COVID science advisory committee
  
• 2019 Member, Dean search committee
  
• 2018 - present Chair, Environmental Engineering Institute strategy committee
  
• 2017 - present Director, Civil and Environmental Engineering doctoral program
  
• 2014 - 2017 Member, Gender Equality working group
  
• 2009 - present Chair, Central Environmental Laboratory advisory board

Research funding

Total funding generated: over 6,000,000 Swiss francs

Supervision of junior researchers

Supervised 18 postdocs, 16 PhD students (12 completed) and 25 Master students

Teaching activities

• 2012 - 2014 Waterborne Pathogens
  
• 2010 - present Fate and Behavior of Organic Contaminants
  
• 2010 Pollutant Transformations in Lakes
  
• 2008 - present Environmental chemistry
  
• 2007 - 2010 Water and Wastewater Treatment