Assistant Professor

Environmental Engineering

Office 640 Sutardja Dai Hall
Email cgerlein@berkeley.edu
Websites Personal website
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Office Hours:

Fall 2022?
Drop-in: Thursdays, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM in 640 Sutardja Dai Hall
By appointment: using Calendly for?30 minute?or 1 hour meetings

Biography

Prof. Gerlein-Safdi is an ecohydrologist interested in understanding water-carbon relations within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. She uses an array of methods, from satellite data to process-based modeling, from stable isotopes lab experiments to field measurements.
She graduated with her PhD from the Department of?Civil and Environmental Engineering?at Princeton University in 2017 and was a junior fellow from the?Michigan Society of Fellows?from 2017 to 2020, working in the department of?Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering.?After a year and a half as a Project Scientist at?Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?(LBNL) in the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, she started as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley in January 2022. She remains involved with projects at LBNL as a Faculty Scientist.

Education

2009 - BSc, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Strasbourg, France
2011 - MSc, Environmental Engineering, University of Strasbourg, France
2012 - MEng, Geophysics, Engineering School of Geophysics of Strasbourg (EOST), France
2017 - PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
2019 - Certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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