SusTec researchers Jochen Markard, Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez, Alberto Arcà, and James Kneebone presented their latest work at the 16th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference, held in Lisbon from June 24 to 26, 2025.
Our SusTec colleagues Ricarda Fieber, Jenni Kaipainen, and Catharina Bening participated in and contributed to the first Phase II NCCR Catalysis Annual Meeting, held at ETH Zurich, and returned with new insights, ideas for future collaborations, and an award.
Together with Fraunhofer IZM researcher Theresa Aigner, our PhD candidate David Pfeffer presented ongoing research on the economic and environmental performance of producing high-quality plastic recyclates from e-waste.
Our PhD candidate David Pfeffer participated in the PhD Honors Program AMBassadors for sustaInable transition (AMBITION), an EU-funded project bringing together PhD students from Europe and Africa to learn about sustainable development from different disciplines and contexts and develop educational content for younger generations.
A new open-access study classifies European countries into three archetypes—battery, pumped hydro and hydrogen—for a cost-optimal, net-zero power system by 2050, and shows that higher-resolution grid models markedly increase long-duration hydrogen needs.
A new open-access article features a novel framework for scaling circular ecosystems through product design, co-authored by SusTec member Jenni Kaipainen and her colleagues Lucrezia Sgambaro and Davide Chiaroni from Politecnico di Milano.
Sophia joined the Sustainability in Business Lab (sus.lab) within the Group of Sustainability and Technology (SusTec) at ETH Zürich in May 2025 as a Senior Project Manager.
