Dr. Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez

Alejandro is a senior researcher at Prof. Volker Hoffmann’s Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec), at the 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 external page 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 (external page EPFL, Switzerland) as well a BSc in Energy Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (external page UPM, Spain). Previously, Alejandro worked in the solar photovoltaic industry as PV System Engineer at external page Cleanergetic Seers Solutions, in Madrid (Spain), and as Business Development Analyst at external page 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 (external page CET) and the Chair of Management of Network Industries (external page MIR), both in the College of Management (external page CDM) at EPFL. In 2015, he co-founded the external page Energy Business, Policy and Technology Group at EPFL, and since 2016, he is a co-founder and the Analytics Director of the external page Young leaders on Energy and Sustainability in Europe (YES-Europe) network.

In 2019, Alejandro co-founded the 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 external page 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.