Dr. Jochen Markard

Jochen is a Privatdozent (Habilitation and Venia Legendi) at ETH Zurich and a senior researcher at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).

He holds a PhD in innovation studies and degrees in electrical engineering and energy economy.

In his research, Jochen focuses on sustainability transitions: large scale sectoral changes of e.g. energy and transport systems to more sustainable modes of production and consumption.

Jochen studies the interaction of technological change, actor strategies, policy and institutional change. He applies concepts from different disciplines, including innovation and transition studies, political sciences and management studies.

Current research topics: Net-zero, difficult to decarbonize industries, politics of transitions, transition pathways, advocacy coalitions, unsustainable transitions.

Jochen’s work has been published in EIST, PNAS, Research Policy, Nature Energy, Science, TFSC, Review of Policy Research, ERSS, Energy Policy and other journals.

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Selected Talks

• Electrify everything – A new meta-rule in the net-zero transition? 15th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Oslo, June 17, 2024.
• Dead-end pathways. 15th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Oslo, June 17, 2024.
• Innovations and sustainability transitions. Guest Lecture, Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, March 14, 2024
• Transition pathways to net-zero: Comparing different strategies. Tokyo University, February 24, 2023.
  
• Sustainability Transitions: Analyzing controversies in public discourses. Université de Montpellier, January 26, 2023.
• The lifecycle of technological innovation systems. DFG Network "Dynamics of Innovation Systems", November 28, 2022.
• Sustainability Transitions and the net-zero challenge, Neoma Business School, September 9, 2021.
• NEST Webinar “Introduction to Sustainability Transitions” Download slides (PDF, 8 MB), available on Download YouTube, May 26, 2020.
• Sustainability transitions: Foundations, experiences, policy implications. Keynote, McGill Sustainable Systems Initiative Symposium, Montreal, October 16, 2019.
  
• Confronting Tesla and Glencore with problematic Cobalt sourcing. 37th EGOS Colloquium, conjointly with Nathalie Lefebvre and Johannes Meuer, July 9, 2021.
• Acceleration and beyond. New challenges for transitions research. Keynote, 10^th IST Conference, Ottawa Download slides (PDF, 452 KB), external page video (YouTube), June 24, 2019.
• Accelerating sustainability transitions – new challenges for research. Keynote, 4th NEST Conference (PDF, 2.9 MB), Lisbon conjointly with Nuno Bento, April 5, 2019.
• The next phase of the energy transition. external page Invited talk, University of Antwerp, Belgium, December 4, 2018.
• Research opportunities at the intersection of sustainability transitions and management studies. Sub-Theme 26 "Organizations in Sustainability Transitions", 33^rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen.  Download download slides (PDF, 263 KB), July 6, 2017.
• Sustainability Transitions – guidance and reflections. Keynote - Introduction to newcomers, 8^th International Conference on Sustainability Transitions, Gothenburg. Download download slides (PDF, 298 KB), June 18, 2017.
• "Transition Studies: A PhD guide into the wild", 2^nd PhDs in Transitions Conference. EPFL Lausanne, conjointly with Bernhard Truffer, April, 27, 2017.
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