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Department of Informatics Informatics and Sustainability Research

Former Members of the ISR Group

The Informatics and Sustainability Research group (Forschungsgruppe Informatik und Nachhaltigkeit) was headed by Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hilty until his retirement in July 2024.

The following researchers used to be part of the group:

  • Dr. Jeannette Behringer, Senior Scientist until 2024, topics: sufficiency as a sustainability strategy, social change and transformation, ethical aspects of sustainable development (in cooperation with ZKSD)
  • Prof. Dr. Jan Bieser, Research Associate until 2024, topics: digitalization as an opportunitiy and risk for climate protection, sustainability assessment for ICT, extending the service life of smartphones (in cooperation with ZHAW)

  • Dr. Leonard Creutzburg, Postdoc until 2024, topics: sufficiency as a sustainability strategy, post-growth economics (in cooperation with ZKSD)

  • Giulia Fontana, Research Associate until 2024, topic: sufficiency as a sustainability strategy (in cooperation with ZKSD)

  • Dr. Maike Gossen, Postdoc until 2024, sufficiency strategies for businesses (in cooperation with ZKSD)

  • Dr. Matthias Huss, Research Associate until 2024, topic: sustainable development by reducing poverty and ensuring food security, modelling and simulation of innovation diffusion in developing countries (in cooperation with ZKSD)

  • René Inderbitzin, Research Associate until 2024, topic: sufficiency as a sustainability strategy (in cooperation with ZKSD)

  • Johannes Probst, Research Associate until 2024, topic: sufficiency as a sustainability strategy, transformation theories (in cooperation with ZKSD)

  • Dr. Ning Wang, Senior Scientist until 2024, topic: ethics assessment and responsible governance of emerging and future technologies, focus social acceptability and acceptance of civil drones (in cooperation with DSI)

  • Marie-Louis Zucker, Research Associate until 2024, topics: science communication in the field of ICT for sustainability (ICT4S)

  • Prof. Dr. Wiktoria Furrer, Research Associate until 2023, topic: sufficiency as a sustainability strategy with a focus on education (in cooperation with FHNW)

  • Maria Pouri, PhD Student until 2023, topic: the digital sharing economy and sustainability, assessment methods for business models in the sharing economy
  • Prof. Dr. Joachim Scholderer, Research Associate until 2023, topics: corporate responsibility and sustainability, applcation of machine learning for food security (in cooperation with NMBU)
  • João Gonçalves, Research Assistant until 2022, topic: software architecture for gamification in the field of material flow modelling and climate protection (Post-fossilCities Game) (in cooperation with Empa)
  • Dr. Clemens Mader, Research Associate until 2021, topics: assessment of emerging technologies,  societal transformation (in cooperation with Empa)
  • Dr. Stefan Holm, PhD Student until 2018, topic: agent-based modelling of wood markets (in cooperation with WSL)
  • Dr. Esther Thiébaud (-Müller), PhD Student until 2018, topic: modelling resource stocks and flows caused by ICT end-user devices (in cooperation with Empa and ETH)
  • Dr. Nikolaus Bornhöft, PhD Student until 2017, topics: probablilistic modelling of the environmental fate of nanoparticles, material flow modeling for environmental assessment (in cooperation with Empa)
  • Louis-Philippe Clément, Intern in 2017, topic: life cycle assessment of ICT hardware, in particular end-user devices (in cooperation with Namur University)
  • Quentin Jacquemotte, Intern in 2017, topic: life cycle assessment of ICT hardware, in particular end-user devices (in cooperation with Namur University)
  • Yuliyan Maksimov, Research Assistant until 2017, topics: sustainable software design, machine learning in sustainablity-relevant fields, minimum energy wireless data transmission
  • Dr. Jürgen Reinhard, PhD Student until 2017, topic: improving the effectiveness and efficiency of data collection for life cycle assessment, regional differentiation of LCA data for the food supply chain (in cooperation with Empa)
  • Patrizia Huber,  Research Assistant until 2016, topic: empirical study of motivational factors for  students in ICT-related study programs to engage with sustainability-related topics
  • Dr. Mohammad Ahmadi Achachlouei, Academic Guest and PhD Student until 2015, topics: impacts  of ICT on environmental sustainability, life cycle assessment of ICT (in cooperation with CESC at KTH)
  • Dr. Martina Kolpondinos-Huber, PhD Student until 2014, topics: gamification as a method to foster environmentally conscious behavior, co-organization of the first international conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S) , Zurich 2013,
  • Dr. Wolfgang Lohmann, Research Associate until 2014, topics: criteria for software sustainability, Green IT, Green Software Engineering (in cooperation with Empa)
  • Dr. Vlad Coroama, Research Associate until 2010, topics:  methods  of assessing Internet energy demand, assessment of a multi-hub conference  (the first World Resources Forum (WRF) in Davos and Nagoya 2009) (in cooperation with Empa and SWITCH)