Flühler, Hannes
Professor
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Hannes Flühler was Professor of Soil Physics, starting in April 1983. He was involved in the study of transport processes in soil, specifically in methodology, but also in relation to environmental applications such as nutrient discharge from agricultural and forested areas, ground water pollution, pollutant migration phenomena in waste disposal sites. Prof. Flühler was born on December 4, 1941 and comes from Oberdorf NW and Zurich. He studied at the Department of Forest Sciences and received his doctorate under Professor Felix Richard at the ETH Zurich in 1972. After postgraduate studies at the ETH Zurich, he was the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation (1974/75) and later Research Soil Physicist (1975/76) at the University of California Riverside, USA. From 1977 to 1980 he led the Biophysics Group at the Federal Institute for Forestry Research, where he headed the interdisciplinary project "Forest Damage in the Valais". From 1980 to 1983 he headed the Vegetation and Soil Section at this institute. Together with his colleagues, he established the ETH Zurich Forum for Environmental Issues in 1988 and initiated a training program which overlapped various departments. As a member of a several commissions at the ETH Zurich as well as foreign research institutions, he has dedicated himself to environmental research and to promoting interdisciplinary approaches to research. Additional Information 2 clicks for more data protection: this button will only become active and you can only send your suggestion to Facebook once you've clicked here. Data will be transferred to others as soon as you have activated this. 2 clicks for more data protection: this button will only become active and you can only send your suggestion to Twitter once you've clicked here. Data will be transferred to others as soon as you have activated this. 2 clicks for more data protection: this button will only become active and you can only send your suggestion to Google+ once you've clicked here. Data will be transferred to others as soon as you have activated this. Recommend this page to someone.
Research Interest
Environmental Sciences.
Publications
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Incorporating soil structure and root distribution into plant uptake models for radionuclides: toward a more physically based transfer model. Albrecht A, Schultze U, Liedgens M, Flühler H, Frossard E. J Environ Radioact. 2002;59(3):329-50.
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Fluorescence imaging applied to tracer distributions in variably saturated fractured clayey till. Rosenbom AE, Ernstsen V, Flühler H, Jensen KH, Refsgaard JC, Wydler H. J Environ Qual. 2008 Feb 11;37(2):448-58. doi: 10.2134/jeq2007.0145. Print 2008 Mar-Apr.
