Isabella Schalko

I am a tenure-track Research Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research WSL and a Lecturer at ETH Zurich. Since 2020, I am a Research Affiliate at the Nepf Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). An environmental engineer by training, I study transport processes in fluvial systems with a special focus on the interactions between flow, sediment, and vegetation.

I completed my doctorate in Environmental Engineering at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) at ETH Zurich in September 2018. Prior to that, I received my Bachelor and Master degree in Environmental Engineering at BOKU, Vienna.