Dr. Jacob Hirschberg

Since 2018: PhD in the project Sediment Cascades in Alpine Mass Movements - A sub-project of WSL strategic Initiative “Climate Change Impacts on Alpine Mass Movements” (CCAMM)

• Climate change impacts on Alpine mass movements
• Dynamics of debris flows
• Natural hazards in the Alpine region

• since 2018: PhD Student, Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Project: "Sediment cascades in Alpine mass movements".

• 2015 - 2018: Master of Science in Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Thesis: "Impacts of radar rainfall estimation uncertainties on simulated flash floods in a desert environment".
• 2011 - 2015: Bachelor of Science in  Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Thesis: "Characterizing regionalized land use and land use change flows for forestry products and quantifying their impact on biodiversity".

• Oct 2017 - Jan 2018: Master Thesis Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

• Jan 2017 - Aug 2017: Intern at Hunziker, Zarn & Partner, Aarau, Switzerland. Engineering Office for Hydraulic Engineering.