Kipfer, Rolf
Professor
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Rolf Kipfer has been an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollution Dynamics in the Department of Environmental Sciences since 2008. He is also Head of the Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water at Eawag, the Swiss Federal institute for Aquatic Science and Technology. He was born in Zurich in 1962. Rolf Kipfer obtained a diploma in earth sciences at ETH Zurich in 1986, where he went on to complete a PhD in 1991. From 1991-1996 he worked as a senior assistant and lecturer at ETH Zurich. Since 1996 Rolf Kipfer has been a senior scientist and Head of the Environmental Isotopes Group of the Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water at Eawag.
Research Interest
The analysis of physical transport and exchange processes in the natural environment and the hydrosphere (e.g. lakes, groundwater, porous media, gas hydrates etc.). Tracer hydrology (e.g. water-dating, gas/water partitioning in open water, porous media, firn and ice etc.). The development and application of noble gases and other transient tracer methods, and isotopic techniques (e.g. stable isotope analysis on single compounds) in environmental science. The reconstruction of global and environmental change using different natural aquatic archives (e.g. groundwater, lacustrine sediments, firn and ice, speleothemes etc.)
Publications
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A Portable and Autonomous Mass Spectrometric System for On-Site Environmental Gas Analysis. Brennwald MS, Schmidt M, Oser J, Kipfer R. Environ Sci Technol. 2016 Dec 20;50(24):13455-13463. Epub 2016 Dec 7.
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Diverging effects of isotopic fractionation upon molecular diffusion of noble gases in water: mechanistic insights through ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. Pinto de Magalhães H, Brennwald MS, Kipfer R. Environ Sci Process Impacts. 2017 Mar 22;19(3):405-413. doi: 10.1039/c6em00614k.
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Porewater salinity reveals past lake-level changes in Lake Van, the Earth's largest soda lake. Tomonaga Y, Brennwald MS, Livingstone DM, Kwiecien O, Randlett MÈ, Stockhecke M, Unwin K, Anselmetti FS, Beer J, Haug GH, Schubert CJ, Sturm M, Kipfer R. Sci Rep. 2017 Mar 22;7(1):313. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00371-w.
