Lars Mächler Email & Phone Number

Thun, Berne, Switzerland

Bern

Development of a technical proposal and the mitigation activity study for a biomass briquette program in Ghana.

Bern, Schweiz

Development of a novel vacuum-extraction system for air trapped in ice cores, based on laser induced sublimation: Designing, building up and automating the system using LabVIEW. Implementing measurement strategies with laser spectroscopy. Data management and evaluation. Coordinating of and with different scientific and technical personnel. Laboratory management, including safety assessment and training new users.

14-21: Teaching assistant, physics I-III and atom physics courses, University of Bern. 08–10: Co-Instructor, physics laboratory and environmental science field courses,Eawag/ETH Zürich.05–06: Student assistant, discrete mathematics for engineers, ETH Zürich.

Auckland, Neuseeland

SIMION flight simulations of ions in non-linear potential mirrors for a MALDI time-of-flight mass spectrometer with delayed ion extraction.Rebuild of a vacuum system and a quadratic-field ion mirror consisting of elliptically shaped electrodes.

Gas concentration measurements in the saturated and unsaturated zone of an oil-contaminated aquifer using in field mass spectrometry.

Dübendorf, Zürich, Schweiz

Development of a stand-alone system based on a membrane inlet mass spectrometer for measuring dissolved (noble) gas concentrations in groundwater under field conditions. Conducting of field studies to understand the influence of subsurface gas exchange on the biochemical state of groundwater.Measurements of noble gas concentrations using sector field mass spectrometry and determination of SF6 concentrations with gas chromatography.

Zürich, Schweiz

Master in physics Specialization in solid-state physics, During diploma thesis (MSc): conducting measurements with different neutron scattering instruments at SINQ; PSI, ILL; Grenoble and FRM II; Munich