Michaela Teich
Dr. Michaela Teich is a forest scientist with a special interest in working in inter- and transdisciplinary teams, aiming to contribute to the sustainable management of protective forests and natural hazard risks in mountain areas. She earned a master’s degree from Technische Universität Dresden in 2006, before joining the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Switzerland as a research assistant. In 2014, she completed her Ph.D. on forest-avalanche interactions at ETH Zurich, and then studied the snowpack in bark beetle- and fire-disturbed forests for four years at Utah State University, USA. Dr. Teich is currently leading the Unit of Snow and Avalanches at the Department of Natural Hazards of the Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW).