Tamar Kohn, new Environmental Engineering Institute director

As of 1^st September 2023, Professor Tamar Kohn takes on the direction of the Environmental Engineering Institute (IIE), for a 4-year mandate. She succeeds to Professor D. Andrew Barry, who has been a very active institute director from 2008 to 2012 and from 2017 to 2023.

Professor Tamar Kohn is full professor of environmental engineering. She works in the field of environmental chemistry and environmental virology, in which she has established herself as one of the world’s leading researchers. Her current focus is on the fate of human viruses in the natural and built environment, such as in sewage treatment plants or in aerosol particles. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her research results enabled SARS-CoV-2 viruses to be identified and tracked in wastewater. She serves on a number of expert bodies, has been appointed to advisory committees of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and is an Adjunct Researcher at Eawag.