Curriculum Vitae

Education and postdoctoral training

Postdoctoral Associate (2005 - 2007)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
Advisor: Professors René P. Schwarzenbach and Kristopher McNeill

Ph.D., Chemical & Environmental Engineering (2002 - 2005)
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Thesis: Irreversibility of Organic Compound Sorption to Natural Organic Matter Solids
Thesis Advisors: Professors Joseph J. Pignatello and Menachem Elimelech

M.S., Chemical & Environmental Engineering (2001 - 2002)
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Diplom (M.S.), Geoecology (1997 - 2000)
Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Thesis: Nonequilibrium Sorption of Pesticides in Two Tropical Soils as Assessed by Column Flow Experiments
Thesis Advisors: Professors Kai Uwe Totsche and Wulf Amelung

Vordiplom (B.S.) Geoecology (1995 - 1997)
Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Professional experience

Senior Scientist (permanent position) (2017 - 2021)
Environmental Chemistry
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland

Research Group Leader (permanent position) (2013 - 2016)
Environmental Chemistry
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland

Oberassistent (Research Subgroup Leader) (2007 - 2013)
Environmental Chemistry
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland

Honors & Awards

external pageBest Environmental Technology Paper 2016call_made, Environmental Science & Technology; for Walpen, N., M. Schroth, and M. Sander 2016. Environ Sci Technol., 2016, 50, 6423-6432; DOI: external page10.1021/acs.est.6b01120call_made • Excellence in Review Award, Environmental Science & Technology (2013) • Eurosoil Conference, Best Poster Award by "Biology and Fertility of Soils" Journal for poster Electrochemical characterization of the redox properties of humic substances (2012) • external pageBest Environmental Science & Technology Science paper of 2009call_made; Second Runner Up for Aeschbacher, M., M. Sander, and R.P. Schwarzenbach, 2009. Environ Sci Technol . 44 (1), 87-­93 (2010) • Travel Stipend, German Science Foundation (DFG) (2006) • Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award, American Chemical Society (ACS) (2005) • Graduate Student Poster Award. Honorable Mention. Gordon Research Conference, Environmental Sciences: Water. Plymouth, NH. (2004) • United States of America National Council of the International Water Association (IWA), Student Membership Scholarship (2003) • Graduate Student Assembly Travel Stipend, Yale University (2004) • Francois Fiessinger Scholar 2003, Environmental Research and Education Foundation (2003-2006) • Yale University Graduate Fellowship, Yale University (2001) • ‘external pageEvangelisches Studienwerk Villigstcall_made e.V.’, Scholarship for studies of Geoecology (1995-2000) • Oskar-Karl Forster Stipend, University of Bayreuth (1999)

Short Bio

Michael Sander received his B.S. and M.S. degrees (i.e., Vordiplom and Diplom) in Geoökologie (Environmental Sciences) from the University of Bayreuth (Bayreuth, Germany) in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (focus: Environmental Engineering) from Yale University (New Haven, USA) in 2005. Following postdoctoral research with Prof. René Schwarzenbach at ETH Zurich (Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics) from 2005 to 2007, he became research group leader (Oberassistent) in 2008. Michael Sander was promoted to the position of a research group leader (permanent position) in 2013 and senior scientist (permanent position) in 2017, both in the research group of Environmental Chemistry at ETH Zurich.

Michael Sander runs his own independent research subgroup which currently has three main research areas: Redox Biogeochemistry, Environmental (Bio)Macromolecular Chemistry, and Environmental Chemistry of Micropollutants

Curriculum Vitae

A short CV can be downloaded here. For an extensive CV, please contact me