Sven Dunkel

Sven was a master’s student in the Energy Science and Technology program here at ETH. He is passionate about decarbonization approaches, respective policies, and their impact on the power grid, residential sector, and mobility. In his master’s he focused on electrochemical energy storage systems, energy economics, and the interconnection of policy and technology. He did his Bachelor’s degree in mechatronic engineering (B.Sc. Mechatronik) at TU Darmstadt in Germany and completed an internship in battery technologies at the ABB Corporate Research Center in Baden. With his thesis, he is excited to build his understanding of the energy and transport sector.

For his thesis, Sven evaluated Swiss policy on electric vehicle charging infrastructure. He used an agent-based model to simulate how different charging network companies and other installers decide to deploy charging stations, studied how that changes under different policies or incentives, and studied the impact on charging demand.