Lenny Winkel
EAG Goldschmidt Officer
Lenny Winkel is a professor of Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry at ETH Zurich and Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. She is also a member of the Eawag directorate. Lenny is an expert in the field of biogeochemical trace element cycling. She and her team combine field work and chemical analyses with various modeling approaches to advance understanding of trace element distributions in the environment and to predict how these are affected by environmental and climate change. Using geospatial modelling approaches, she worked on broad-scale predictions of the harmful element arsenic in groundwater. In 2011, Lenny received a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship for her project on the global biogeochemical cycle of the essential trace element selenium. For advancing the understanding of this cycle, including quantification of environmental species, predicting selenium concentrations in global soils and creating the first atmospheric model for selenium, she received the 2022 Science Innovation Award (Heinz Lowenstam medal) from EAG. Finally, she is an engaged speaker: she was the EAG Distinguished Lecturer for 2017 and gave keynote and plenary lectures at various international conferences.
As Goldschmidt Officer, Lenny will co-chair the Goldschmidt2027 Organizing and Science Committees.