Dr. Markus Holzner

Since 2013, Markus Holzner is an Assistant Professor of "Environmental Fluid Mechanics" at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, where he was granted a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) professorship. He has established a research group at the frontier of environmental flows and transport, tackling interdisciplinary issues related to aquatic ecosystems that span traditional subject boundaries of engineering and ecology. His background is in turbulence, with key research on turbulent entrainment, interfaces and transition to turbulence, and with the establishment of his SNSF Chair he has moved from a more fundamental approach to the study of environmental fluid flows and transport with a focus on Ecohydraulics. He has published more than 50 ISI papers and his funding portfolio (ca. four million CHF in the last four years) has allowed him to establish new lines of investigation on fluid mechanics and flow-biota interactions, including, the effect of hydro- and thermopeaking on benthic ecosystems (drift behavior of organisms in streams), bioremediation in groundwater systems (biofilm-flow coupling) and fluid structure interactions (pulsatile flow in compliant aortas). Prof. Holzner is a member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), the American Geophysical Union, Excite (Experimental and Clinical Imaging Technologies, Zurich), the European COST Action on Flowing Matter, the International Collaboration of Turbulence Research (ICTR) and the DFG Priority Programme 1881 "Turbulent Superstructures".