Tamar Kohn

EPFL ENAC IIE LEV
GR A0 402 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne

EPFL ENAC IIE LEV
GR A0 402 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne

EPFL ENAC IIE LEV
GR A0 402 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne

EPFL ENAC IIE LEV
GR A0 402 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Disinfection
Waterborne pathogens
Airborne pathogens
Environmental virology
Sanitation and hygiene

Mission

We study the fate of viruses outside the host, mostly in water, sometimes in air.
2023 - present Full Professor, EPFL
2014 - 2023 Associate Professor, EPFL
2014 - present Adjunct researcher, Eawag
2007 - 2013 Assistant Professor, EPFL
2004 - 2006 Postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley
2000 - 2004 PhD, Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
1999 Diploma, Environmental Sciences, ETHZ

Awards

Swiss Chemical Society

Best oral presentation to Aline Schaub

2022

Young Researchers' Exchange Programme with Japan

Mobility Grant to Shotaro Torii for his work at LEV

2022

SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowships

Fellowship to Shannon David for her work at LEV

2022

Elected Member

Academia Europaea

2023

Excellence in review award, Environmental Science and Technology Letters

American Chemical Society

2021

Outstanding reviewer award, Environmental Science: Water Science and Technology

Royal Society of Chemistry

2019

Environmental Science and Technology Paper of the year award, runner-up

American Chemical Society

2016

Best presentation, Health-related water microbiology conference

International Water Association

2015

Excellence in review award, Environmental Science and Technology

American Chemical Society

2011

Postdoc mobility fellowship

Swiss National Science Foundation

2004

Journal articles (last 3 years)

Doctoral theses

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Taylor Oran Medina, Josephine Lederballe Meibom, Vidhi Ketan Dholakia, Alissa Agerova, Hui Dong, Madeline Emma Deck, Lisa Theis

Past EPFL PhD Students

Jessica Ivana Nieto Juarez, Michael Jon Mattle, Florence Bonvin, Nadine Czekalski, Anne Thérèse Sigstam, Loïc Decrey, Qingxia Zhong, Ana Karina Pitol Garcia, Camille Wolf, Simon Meister, Odile Hervás de Nalda-Larivé, Margot Ninon Lauren Olive, Chaojie Li, Aline Laetitia Schaub

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Annie Sandrine Guillaume

Courses

Environmental chemistry

ENV-200

This course provides students with an overview over the basics of environmental chemistry. This includes the chemistry of natural systems, as well as the fate of anthropogenic chemicals in natural systems. It enables students to apply general chemical concepts to natural systems.

Introduction to environmental engineering

ENV-167

Key themes in environmental science and engineering will be show-cased, with examples - from equator to the poles - including atmospheric processes and climate change, water quality, energy resources and urban development, with the amazing technologies used to study and address current challenges.