Core expertise

Soil microorganisms

Biography

Ele is an early-career scientist interested in soil microorganisms. Trained as environmental microbiologist, she obtained her doctoral degree at ETH Zurich on methane-oxidising bacteria in 2016, then gained postdoctoral experience at Charles Darwin University and the University of Melbourne. Since late 2017, Ele has collaborated with the Greening Lab on microbial methane and hydrogen oxidation processes in Australian termite mounds and savanna soils, among other projects.
She's been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation to investigate the ecological role of trace gas scavenging in oligotrophic soil ecosystems.