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Bettina Schaefli is a recognized expert in hydrology, whose academic journey began with a degree in Environmental Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), culminating in a PhD in Hydrology in 2005. Her doctoral work focused on climate change and hydropower production, marking one of the first model-based studies in this field, which significantly influenced both Swiss research and her career. She enhanced her expertise in hydrological modeling during a two-year postdoctoral stint at the University of Potsdam and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an Assistant Professor at TU Delft, she expanded her research to larger spatial scales and various climatic regions. In 2010, she returned to Switzerland to focus on hydropower resources through a project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), initially at EPFL and then as an Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne since 2016. Bettina Schaefli is actively involved with one of the eight Swiss Competence Centers for Energy Research and is dedicated to open science through her role as editor for a leading scientific journal in hydrology and as president of the hydrological commission in Switzerland.
University of Lausanne • Lausanne, Switzerland
Teaching and researching in hydrology, focusing on climate impacts and sustainable resource management.
Institute of Geography • University of Bern
Leading research in hydrological modeling and process prediction for sustainable water resource use.
TU Delft • Delft, Netherlands
Conducted research on hydrological processes and modeling on larger spatial scales.
Part of the Swiss Joint Master in Computer Science (Bern, Fribourg, Neuchâtel).