Dr. Susanne Burri

Curriculum Vitae

Professional

• Since 06/2016 | ICOS-CH coordinator & Research associate, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland – Project management and coordination of ICOS-CH, Interaction with ICOS RI (ICOS Research Infrastructure) and scientific work within ICOS-CH

• 07/2015 – 05/2016 | Postdoctoral researcher (part-time), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Forest Dynamics, Birmensdorf, Switzerland − Scientific project work (Projects TreeNet & ICOS)

• 09/2015 – 03/2016 | Mandate (part-time) for Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Switzerland − Elaboration of research fields in the area of sustainable resource use by means of expert talks

• 07/2015 – 09/2015 | Scientific exhibition attendant (3 days in Zurich, 3 days in Basel), Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), Switzerland − Researcher at the exhibition tour 'Research Live' (200th anniversary of SCNAT)

• 03/2015 – 07/2015 | Mandate (part-time) for LERNfeld, Globe Switzerland, Switzerland − Guidance in out-of-the-classroom research experiments on biodiversity and climate change in the agricultural context

• 11/2013 – 12/2014 | Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Environmental Sciences – Botany, University of Basel & Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland − Scientific project work on CO₂ efflux in grassland soils under drought

• 08/2009 – 07/2013 | Research associate & doctoral candidate, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland − Scientific project management and work (Project CARBO-Extreme)

• 05/2009 – 06/2009 | Student assistant, Institute of Meteorology, Climatology and Remote Sensing, University of Basel, Switzerland − Scientific project work on urban CO₂ fluxes

• 08/2007 – 11/2007 | Internship, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSchweiz, Zurich, Switzerland − Project work within the department Koordinationsorgan Meteorologische Daten

• 04/2005 – 07/2005 | Tutorial assistant, Faculty of Science, University of Basel, Switzerland − Supervision of Statistics Course for Beginners of Studies in Natural Sciences

Education

• 08/2015 – 12/2015 Writing for outreach: Schreibcoaching für Forschende – Wissenschaftsthemen attraktiv aufbereiten (4 half-days at MAZ – Die Schweizer Journalistenschule)

• 08/2009 – 07/2013 Doctor of Sciences, Department of Environmental System Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; PhD thesis in the Grassland Sciences Group; Title: The impact of summer drought on the short-term carbon cycle of temperate grasslands; Project: CARBO-Extreme (7^th Framework Programme)

• 09/2007 – 06/2009 Master of Science in Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, Switzerland;   Major: Environmental Geosciences; Minor: Meteorology, Title of Master thesis: CO₂ Fluxes and Concentrations over an Urban Surface in Cairo/Egypt; Project: CAPAC (Climate and Air Pollution of Cairo)

• 08/2006 – 06/2007 Study exchange within Erasmus Exchange Programme, University of Bergen, Norway; Courses with focus on meteorology and climatology

• 10/2003 – 09/2006 Bachelor of Science in Geosciences, University of Basel, Switzerland; Major: Environmental Geosciences, Minor: Meteorology

• 07/1999 – 12/2002 Matura, Gymnasium Oberwil, Switzerland; Typus B (Latin), Title of matura thesis: Klima im Wandel

Projects

ICOS-CH

Publications

• Krebs L, Burri S, Feigenwinter I, Gharun M, Meier P, Buchmann N (2024) Forest-floor respiration, N₂O fluxes, and CH₄ fluxes in a subalpine spruce forest: drivers and annual budgets. Biogeosciences 21: 2005-2028, doi: external page 10.5194/bg-21-2005-2024
• Burri S (ed.) (2023) Research Site Davos-Seehornwald — Excursion guide. ETH Zurich, Zurich, 35 pp, doi: external page 10.3929/ethz-b-000609359
• Gharun M, Hörtnagl L, Paul-​Limoges E, Ghiasi S, Feigenwinter I, Burri S, Marquardt K, Etzold S, Zweifel R, Eugster W, Buchmann N (2020) Summer 2018 drought reduced forest and grassland productivity, but not at higher elevations in Switzerland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190521, doi: external page 10.1098/rstb.2019.0521
• Burri S (ed.) (2019) Long-Term Environmental Research – The Davos-Seehornwald Site. Excursion Guide. doi: external page 10.3929/ethz-b-000328277
• Burri S, Haeler E, Eugster W, Haeni M, Etzold S, Walthert L, Braun S, Zweifel R (2019) How did Swiss forest trees respond to the hot summer 2015? DIE ERDE 150: 214-229, doi: external page 10.12854/erde-2019-420
• Burri S, Niklaus PA, Grassow K, Buchmann N, Kahmen A (2018) Effects of plant productivity and species richness on the drought response of soil respiration in temperate grasslands. PLOS ONE 13: e0209031, doi: external page 10.1371/journal.pone.0209031
• Hörtnagl L, Barthel M, Buchmann N, Eugster W, Butterbach-Bahl K, Díaz-Pinés E, Zeeman M, Klumpp K, Kiese R, Burri S, Bahn M, Hammerle A, Ladreiter-Knauss T, Lu H, Merbold L (2018) Greenhouse gas fluxes over managed grasslands in Central Europe. Global Change Biology, 24: 1843-1872, doi: external page 10.1111/gch14079
• Prechsl U, Burri S, Gilgen AK, Kahmen A, Buchmann N (2015) No shift to a deeper water uptake depth in response to summer drought of two lowland and sub-alpine C₃ grasslands in Switzerland. Oecologia 177: 97‑111
• Balogh J, Fótic S, Pintéra K, Burri S, Eugster W, Papp M, Nagya Z (2014): Soil CO₂ efflux and production rates as influenced by evapotranspiration in a dry grassland. Plant and Soil 388: 157-173, doi: external page 10.1007/s11104-014-2314-3
• Burri S, Buchmann N (2014) Grasland unter zukünftiger Sommertrockenheit – eine Kohlenstoffjagd. GeoPanorama 2: 15‑17
• Burri S, Sturm P, Prechsl U, Knohl A, Buchmann N (2014) The impact of extreme summer drought on the short-term carbon coupling of photosynthesis to soil CO₂ efflux in a temperate grassland. Biogeosciences 11: 961‑975
• Burri S, Sturm P, Baur T, Barthel M, Knohl A, Buchmann N (2014) The effect of physical back-diffusion of ¹³CO₂ tracer on the coupling between photosynthesis and soil CO₂ efflux in grassland. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 50: 497‑513
• Burri S (2013) The impact of summer drought on the short-term carbon cycle of temperate grasslands. Dissertation ETH No. 21187, ETH Zurich, 167 pp.Available at: http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/view/eth:7536