The popular science blog of the Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment

Thesis Defended

The dynamism of research is reflected in the numerous PhD theses undertaken and defended in the Faculty. Find the abstracts of doctoral theses in geography, earth sciences, environmental sciences and tourism studies in this section. The full text of some of them is usually available on IRIS platform.

Materialities of Bigness Encountering the Urban Politics of Iconicity with the European Solidarity Centre

16 January 2026
Rockfall hazard: From observations to improved runout predictions utilizing detailed terrain models

10 December 2025
Building entanglements: Hagia Sophia and the everyday politics of urban landmarks

4 September 2025
The Weddell Sea: predator or prey ? A paleo-investigation of ice-ocean interactions in the Weddell Sea through marine geology and radiogenic isotopes

2 July 2025
Influence of climate change on water resources in Alpine and Himalayan river basins using tree rings and stable isotope analyses

5 February 2025
Biogeochemical Drivers of Manganese-Mediated Litter Decomposition

16 January 2025
Encounters with Difference: Exploring the Diversity of Everyday Life in Urban Public Squares

12 June 2024
Quaternary evolution of an African High Plateau: The Chobe Enclave (Northen Botswana)

7 February 2024
Towards a post-growth economic culture: existential transition blocks and levers from an ecopsychological perspective

5 December 2023
The Multispecies City: Becoming with Rats in Zurich

17 November 2023
Urban disposabilities : garbage and the relational politics of place-making in Cartagena, Colombia

15 November 2023
Evaluating Environmental Drivers of Late Permian to Early Triassic Marine Biotic Events Using Multiple Geochemical and Isotopic Proxies

15 November 2023
Unravelling the heat budget of the Lepontine Dome: Interdisciplinary geological, petrological, thermodynamic and geochronological study of shear zones

13 November 2023
Deciphering Complexities of the Organic Carbon Cycle in the Smithian and Spathian Substages of the Early Triassic

30 August 2023
In search of other environments: permaculture through the prism of mesology in Switzerland and Japan

30 August 2023