Winkel, Lenny

Biography

Lenny Winkel has been an Assistant Professor of Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry (SNFS Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation) at the Department of Environmental Sciences since 2011. She was born in Leidschendam, Netherlands, in 1975. She completed a Master’s in geology at Utrecht University, Netherlands, in 2000 and obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich (Earth Science Department) in 2006. From 2006 to 2008 Lenny Winkel worked as a postdoc at Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), where she was involved in the development of prediction models for natural arsenic pollution in groundwater in Southeast Asia. This project and the two associated publications she was first author on received extensive international press coverage. From 2008 to 2011 she was an experienced researcher in the European Marie-Curie network AquaTRAIN. Within the context of this network, she worked at the universities of Grenoble, France, Aberdeen, UK and Crete, Greece. She also acted as an AquaTRAIN subproject leader, researcher representative and mentor for early stage researchers.

Research Interest

Global trace element cycling, Geospatial modeling, Soil-water-atmosphere transfer processes and Role of climate in trace element cycling.