Dr. Darcy Molnar

Dr.  Darcy Molnar

Dr. Darcy Molnar

Lecturer at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

ETH Zürich

Institut für Umweltingenieurwiss.

HIF D 18.1

Laura-Hezner-Weg 7

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Research area

Sustainable Water Resources

Capacity Building for Sustainable Development

Nature Based Solutions

Course Catalogue

Spring Semester 2024

Number Unit
118-0111-00L Sustainability and Water Resources
118-0113-00L Water Governance: Challenges and Solutions
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Darcy Molnar has been working at ETH since 2005, when she joined the Institute of Environmental Engineering (IfU) as a SNF Marie Heim-Vögtlin recipient. Since 2009 she has been coordinating the Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Sustainable Water Resources, a postgraduate program offered at IfU. From 2015-2019 Darcy also worked at the ETH NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation. Since 2017 Darcy has been coordinating the swissuniversities project Science Action in Schools for Sustainable Development (SAS4SD) with activities in Ghana and Cameroon, and since 2019 she has been on the coordination team of the swissuniversities project external pageNetwork for Water and Life (NEWAL) with activities in West Africa. 

Darcy attended Colorado State University (USA), where she received a PhD and MSc in Civil Engineering, and Middlebury College (Vermont, USA) where she studied Physics with a concentration on development topics.

Having spent her childhood years in West Africa, Darcy has a keen interest in development issues related to water, in research for development, and in capacity building for development. She is also committed to promoting gender equality in the sciences, and in 2018 established a external page500 Women Scientists chapter in Zurich. 

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Education

  • Ph.D., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering (1997)
  • M.Sc., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, Civil Engineering, Water Resources Planning and Management (1994)
  • B.A., Middlebury College, Vermont, USA, Physics with a concentration in Third World Development (1991)
  • Semester abroad, American University in Cairo, Egypt (1989)
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