Florentina Gartmann

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate

Teaching

• Bachelor Environmental Engineering
• Master of Science in Environment and Natural Resources

Education and Continuing education

Focus

Aquaponics, hydroponics and bioponics, aquaculture, soil-independend production, circulation systems, integrated pest management, consulting about Massive Open Online Courses

Experience

• Scientific assistant in the research group Aquaculture Systems
  Zurich Univercity of Applied Sciences
  08 / 2022 - 07 / 2023
• Research Assistant in the Research Group Ecotechnology
  Zurich Univercity of Applied Sciences
  09 / 2018 - 08 / 2022
• Geomatics
  Gossweiler Ingenieure, Dübendorf
  08 / 2009 - 09 / 2014

Education

• MSc ZFH in Environment and Natural Resources / Specialization: Ecological Engineering
  Zurich Univercity of Applied Sciences
  09 / 2018 - 07 / 2021
• BSc ZFH in Environmental Engineering / Specialization: Organic Farming and Horticulture, Minor Field Diagnostics and Analytics
  Zurich Univercity of Applied Sciences
  09 / 2014 - 04 / 2018
• Federal vocational baccalaureate / Technical course
  Berufsmaturitätsschule Zürich
  08 / 2009 - 09 / 2013
• Geomatics EFZ / Cadastral measurement, construction measurement
  Gossweiler Ingenieure AG, Dübendorf
  08 / 2009 - 08 / 2013

Continuing Education

• Open Networked Learning ONL 222
  Zurich Univercity of Applied Sciences
  12 / 2022
• Laboratory Animal Science, Various modules for training and continuing education days
  Univercity of Zurich
  05 / 2022
• CAS in Freshwater Fish of Europe, Module 2 - Habitat and species management
  Zurich Univercity of Applied Sciences
  11 / 2019
• CAS in Nature in Urban Areas, Module 4 - Integration of nature into buildings
  Zurich Univercity of Applied Sciences
  04 / 2019

Membership of networks

LinkedIn

Projects

• Use an underground cavern for crop production in an economical and sustainable way? / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• INtegrated and Circular Technologies for Sustainable city region FOOD systems in Africa (INCiTiS-FOOD) / Team member / Project ongoing
• LOFT – Local food for the future / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Development of multi-functional, modular green wall systems with 3D rapid prototyping for circular cities / Team member / Project ongoing
• Aurora Smart Light System / Team member / Project completed
• Aqu@teach: innovative educational tools to promote learning among European / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Gartmann, Florentina; Hügly, Julian; Krähenbühl, Nikita; Brinkmann, Nadine; Schmautz, Zala; Smits, Theo H. M.; Junge, Ranka,

  2023.

  Bioponics – an organic closed-loop soilless cultivation system : yields and characteristics compared to hydroponics and soil cultivation.

  Agronomy.

  13(6), pp. 1436.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13061436

• Schmautz, Zala; Walser, Jean-Claude; Espinal, Carlos A.; Gartmann, Florentina; Scott, Benjamin; Pothier, Joël F.; Frossard, Emmanuel; Junge, Ranka; Smits, Theo H. M.,

  2022.

  Microbial diversity across compartments in an aquaponic system and its connection to the nitrogen cycle.

  Science of the Total Environment.

  852(158426).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158426

• Gartmann, Florentina; Schmautz, Zala; Junge, Ranka,

  2019.

  Influence of pH change on the phosphorus cycle in aquaponics [poster].

  In:

  9th International Phosphorus Workshop (IPW9), Zurich, 8-12 July 2019.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18461

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