Dr. Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez

Alejandro is a senior researcher at Prof. Volker Hoffmann’s Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec), at the Download Dept. of Management, Technology and Economics, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zurich). His research focuses on the influence of technological change on energy policies to facilitate the transition towards more sustainable energy systems. In addition, Alejandro is also an Download Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer’s Center Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP), where he investigate the role of hydrogen in the decarbonization of energy systems. 

In 2024, Alejandro was awarded an Ambizione fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation to develop Zero-AMPS, a new modelling framework that combines agent-based and energy system modelling. Starting in 2025, he will lead his own team to develop the project over the next four years. The Zero-AMPS model will provide insights into how businesses and industries might react when different policies are introduced.

In August 2020, Alejandro completed his PhD on the design of energy policies for harnessing technological change by the ETH Zurich. He holds an MSc degree in Energy Management and Sustainability from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Download EPFL, Switzerland) as well a BSc in Energy Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (Download UPM, Spain). Previously, Alejandro worked in the solar photovoltaic industry as PV System Engineer at Download Cleanergetic Seers Solutions, in Madrid (Spain), and as Business Development Analyst at Download First Solar, in Dubai (U.A.E.). He gained experience in academia as research assistant in the Group of Corporate Renewal and Entrepreneurial Strategies in Technology (Download CET) and the Chair of Management of Network Industries (Download MIR), both in the College of Management (Download CDM) at EPFL. In 2015, he co-founded the Download Energy Business, Policy and Technology Group at EPFL, and since 2016, he is a co-founder and the Analytics Director of the Download Young leaders on Energy and Sustainability in Europe (YES-Europe) network.

In 2019, Alejandro co-founded the Download Energy Blog @ ETH Zurich creating a space for the discussion of the latest discoveries and most relevant topics around energy. In 2016, he was part of the founding team of Download YES-Europe, and a year earlier, in 2015, he co-founded the Energy Business, Policy and Technology Group at EPFL. In both organisations, his primary goal was to promote a comprehensive, critical, and multidisciplinary approach to global energy challenges.