Doctoral research at UESL
PhD research is a cornerstone of the Urban Energy Systems Laboratory. Our doctoral candidates explore topics across energy modeling, building systems, sustainable construction, and digitalization. This section showcases both on-going and completed theses that contribute to shaping future urban energy systems.
On-going PhD theses
- Varsha N. Behrunani: Control and Pricing Mechanisms for Peer-to-Peer Trading in Networked Energy Systems. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Ana Bendiek Laranjo: Digital building stock inventory: Using computer vision to automate pre-demolition audits for circular construction. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Andrea Gattiglio: Model-free control for energy-conscious buildings: from edge data centers waste heat recovery to plug-and-play residential energy scheduling and operation. EPFL, Switzerland.
- Jenny Hansson: The Role of Data Centres in the Urban Energy Transition: Assessing Synergies, Trade-Offs, and Sustainability Pathways. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Cara Koepele: Title. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Heidi Nielsen: Occupant centric flexibility dispatch and quantification. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
- Julie Rousseau: Probabilistic prosumer side flexibilities for multi use-case applications. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Christian Schmid: Digital Twins for Sustainable Buildings: Interoperable KPIs from BIM to LCA.
- Carlo Tajoli: Title. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Arijit Upadhyay: Modeling Robust Transition Paths for Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals in the Swiss Energy-Carbon Nexus. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Leandro Von Krannichfeldt: Hybrid Digital Twins for Building Energy Systems. EPFL, Switzerland.
- Wenjie Xu: Title. EPFL, Switzerland.
Completed PhD theses
- Loris Di Natale (2024): Fusing Pre-existing Knowledge and Machine Learning for Enhanced Building Thermal Modeling and Control. EPFL, Switzerland.
- Emmanouil Thrampoulidis (2023): Transforming the built environment: Leveraging large-scale retrofit and building-level demand flexibility. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Cristina Dominguez Hernandez (2022): Estimating the electricity demand of rural households to improve energy access planning in developing countries. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Felix Bünning (2021): Marrying Machine Learning and Model Predictive Control for efficient Building Energy Management. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Benjamin Fumey (2020): Heat and Mass Exchanger Design for Inter-seasonal Liquid Absorption Heat Storage. Ulster University, United Kingdom.
- Portia Murray (2020): The Role of Power-to-X Technologies in Decentralised Multi-Energy Systems. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Danhong Wang (2020): Simulation and Optimization Methods to Design Distributed Energy Systems with Thermal Networks. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Marc Hohmann (2018): Polynomial Optimization in Energy Systems. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Julien Marquant (2018), Multiscale Urban Energy System Optimization Using Spatio-Temporal Clustering. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Somil Miglani (2018): Optimal energy system and retrofit measures for residential buildings/districts: A detailed modeling perspective on ground source heat pumps. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Christoph Waibel (2018): Simulation-Based Optimization of Buildings and Multi-Energy Systems. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Boran Morvaj (2017): Holistic Optimisation of Distributed Multi Energy Systems for Low Carbon Urban Areas. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
- Georgios Mavromatidis (2017): Model-based design of distributed urban energy systems under uncertainty. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.