Rizlan Bernier-Latmani#
| Membership Number: | 6502 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://people.epfl.ch/rizlan.bernier-latmani?lang=en |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6547-722X |
| Twitter: | @BernierLabEPFL |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/RizlanBernierLatmani |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Full professor, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
- 2013 - 2022 Associate professor, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
- 2005 - 2013 Assistant professor tenure-track, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
- 2001 - 2005 Post-Graduate Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
Fields of Scholarship
- Deep subsurface microbes
- Nuclear waste
- Environmental Microbiology
- Bioremediation
- Uranium biogeochemistry and isotope geochemistry
- Iron geomicrobiology
- Geomicrobiology
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Teaching award ‘Prix SIE d’excellence dans l’enseignement’
- 2017 ERC Consolidator grant. UNEARTH: Uranium Isotope Fractionation: a Novel Biosignature to Identify Microbial Metabolism on Early Earth
- 2004 Rotary Foundation University Professor grant
