Publications
2025
Z’Rotz, J., Ohnmacht, T., & Rérat, P. (2025). An investigation into teleworking and its relationships with gender, mobility, and paid-work-life balance. Swiss Journal of Sociology.
Millward-Hopkins, J., & Fisch-Romito, V. (2025). We have to talk about overconsumption (in three different ways). Environmental Research Letters.
Strebel, D., Ding, X., Zhao, Y., Fan, Y., & Carmeliet, J. (2025). Improved meso- and microscale simulation of outside thermal comfort and application in building physics. In Multiphysics and multiscale building physics: Proceedings of the 9th International Building Physics Conference (IBPC 2024), Volume 2: Urban physics and energy efficiency.
2024
Kubilay, A., Strebel, D., Derome, D., & Carmeliet, J. (2024). Prediction of outdoor thermal comfort during heat waves based on coupled microclimate simulations in various neighborhoods in Swiss cities. In Proceedings of the 9th International Building Physics Conference (IBPC 2024) Volume 2: Urban Physics and Energy Efficiency.
Xu, W., Wang, W., Jiang, Y., Svetozarevic, B., & Jones, C. N. (2024). Principled Preferential Bayesian Optimization. In the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning.
Balthasar, N., Ohnmacht, T., Z’Rotz, J., Hostettler-Macias, L., & Rérat, P. (2024). The effects of teleworking on CO2 emissions from commuting: baselining key data to investigate transformative change in living labs. Consumption and Society.
Coen, V. O., Jan, N., Parrat, J., Runser, J., & Radu, F. (2024). Perma-cultivons les quartiers ! Tracés
Koirala, B., Cai, H., Khayatian, F., Munoz, E., An, J.G., Mutschler, R., Sulzer, M., De Wolf, C., & Orehounig, K. (2024). Digitalization of urban multi-energy systems – Advances in digital twin applications across life-cycle phases. Advances of Applied Energy.
Lepour, D., Loustau, J., Terrier, C., & Maréchal, F. (2024). REHO: A Decision Support Tool for Renewable Energy Communities. The Journal of Open Source Software.
Schnidrig, J., Chuat, A., Granacher, J., Terrier, C., Maréchal, F., & Margni, M. (2024). Power shift: quantifying the role of actors in the multi-actor Swiss energy system decentralization. Frontiers in Energy Research.
Nick, S. (2024). Systems perspectives on transforming Swiss housing by 2040: wellbeing, shared spaces, sufficiency, and de-sprawl. Frontiers in Sustainability.
Chuat, A., Terrier, C., Schnidrig, J., & Maréchal, F. (2024). Identification of typical district configurations: A two-step global sensitivity analysis framework. Energy.
Kubilay, A., Rubin, A., Derome, D., & Carmeliet, J. (2024). Wind-comfort assessment in cities undergoing densification with high-rise buildings remediated by urban trees. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics.
Terrier, C., Loustau, J., Lepour, D., & Maréchal, F. (2024). From Local Energy Communities towards National Energy System: A Grid-Aware Techno-Economic Analysis. Energies.
Schnidrig, J., Chuat, A., Terrier, C., Maréchal, F., & Margni, M. (2024). Power to the People: On the Role of Districts in Decentralized Energy Systems. Energies.
2023
Carmeliet, J., & Derome, D. (2023). How to beat the heat in cities through urban climate modelling. Nature Reviews Physics.
Loustau, J., Lepour, D., Terrier, C., & Maréchal, F. (2023). Clustering and typification of urban districts for energy system modelling. In Proceedings of the ECOS Conference.
Sützl, B., Strebel, D., Rubin, A., Kubilay, A., Zhao, Y., & Carmeliet, J. (2023). An urban morphology clustering analysis to identify heat-prone neighbourhoods in cities. Sustainable Cities and Society.
Tomic, U., Oberkalmsteiner, J., Lobsiger-Kägi, E., Sütterlin, B., Z’Rotz, J., & Ohnmacht, T. (2023, November 28–29). Unveiling sustainability-related lifestyles : a framework for lifestyle-based segmentation in sustainability research. In 7th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency (BEHAVE), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2025
Chevrel, E., Millward-Hopkins, J., Nick, S., & Fisch-Romito, V. (2024). SWICE working paper on DLS mobility [Working paper]. Infoscience.
Saheb, Y., Stuhlfauth, V., & Yazdanie, M. (2025). Sufficiency potential in EU and Swiss residential buildings [Policy brief].
2024
Balthasar, N., Ohnmacht, T., & Z’Rotz, J. (2024). Wie viel CO₂ sparen Bewohnende der Suurstoffi durch Home-Office und Coworking beim Pendeln ein? [Press article]. Zug Estates Magazine.
Fischer, K., Hirzel, D., Schneider, S., Tappeiner, J., Schmid, C., Z’Rotz, J., & Krucker, C. (2024). Stand der Zertifizierungsprozesse von Gebäuden und Arealen in der Schweiz und die Bedeutung der Mobilität [Report]. HSLU.
Terrier, C., Pina, E., & Maréchal, F. (2024). Energy performance gap in the building sector and its impact on investment decisions for heating requirements [Internal report]. SWICE.
2023
Balthasar, N., & Ohnmacht, T. (2023). Suurstoffi LL Energy Tour WP6 [Report].
Forbat, J., Sahakian, M., Lobsiger, E., & Sentic, A. (2023). How to evaluate the outcomes and impacts of living labs? Key insights from the literature and implementers [Conference presentation]. SCORAI Conference.
Khodaei Tehrani, H., Wienold, J., & Andersen, M. (2023). Poster Presentation WP2. Inside / Out: Daylight in Sustainable Urban Design – Conference, Zurich.
Lobsiger, E. (2023). Wie kann nachhaltiges Wohnen funktionieren? ZHAW Impact.
Schubert, I., Hoerler, R., Z’Rotz, J., Balthasar, N., Arnold, T., Mahler, M., Ohnmacht, T., Schmid, C., Schneider, S., et al. (2023). Focus Group Suurstoffi [Report]. HSLU.
Schubert, I., Hörler, R., Z’Rotz, J., Balthasar, N., Ohnmacht, T., Sütterlin, B., Tomic, U., Arnold, T., Schmid, C., Tappeiner, J., Hostettler Macias, L., Rérat, P., & Schneider, S. (2023). Die «Suurstoffi» als Reallabor – Base-Line Studie, Workshops, Interventionen und Projektausblick [Report]. HSLU.
Z’Rotz, J., Balthasar, N., & Ohnmacht, T. (2023). The effects of teleworking on CO₂ emissions to commute: Baselining key data in living labs to investigate transformative change [Conference presentation]. Swiss Mobility Conference (SMC), Lausanne.
2025
Lyu, K., Licina, D., Wienold, J., Khodaei Tehrani, H., & Khovalyg, D. (2025). A Multidomain Approach to Neighbourhood Typology for Urban Environmental Studies – datasets for Geneva and Zurich. EPFL.
2024
Lepour, D., Loustau, J., Terrier, C., & Maréchal, F. (2024). REHO: Renewable Energy Hub Optimizer. EPFL
Vanbutsele, S., & Brahimllari Schaffner, E., (2024). Interactive mapping of Fribourg hot and cool spots. HEIA-FR.
Sahakian, M., Forbat, J., Vanbutsele, S., & Brahimllari Schaffner, E., (2024). Interactive mapping of hot and cool spots in the Jonction area in Geneva. HEIA-FR, UNIGE.
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