Tobias Halter

Research project:

Studying the initiation of shallow rainfall-induced landslides by analysing soil moisture measurements and soil hydrological processes.

Research interests:

• Initiation of shallow landslides
  • Disposition of slopes to slope failure
  • Trigger meachanism of shallow landslides
• Soil Hydrology
  • Analysis of soil moisture measurements
  • Soil hydrological processes

Education:

Since 2023: Doctoral student, Swiss Federal Research Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

2019 – 2022: MSc in Earth Science, programme Engineering Geology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Thesis: Implementing soil moisture information in Landslide Early Warning Systems – a sensitivity study based on the hydromechnical model STEP-TRAMM and statistically-based susceptibility analysis

2016 – 2019: BSc in Earth Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Experience:

2019 - 2023: Internship and project assistance in a geological consulting company, Sieber-Cassina und Partner AG, Zurich, Switzerland