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Franziska Lechleitner

Franziska is a group leader at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. In her research, she works on understanding biogeochemical cycles in the critical zone, particularly where soils meet rocks and groundwater. Her main goal is to understand how climate change will affect biogeochemical processes in the deeper subsurface.

Fieldwork and Family: Parenting in the Biogeosciences

, , , , , , and November 3, 2026
Four people stand side by side in colourful rain boots, their footwear heavily coated in dark brown mud. They are standing on a thick layer of wet, dark brown soil.

It took almost two years to write this blog post – not because the challenges described below are rare, but because the scarcest resource for parents in academia is uninterrupted time. Academic careers are built on time: time to think, to meet collaborators, to develop the next research proposal, and to finally get that paper …[Read More]