Eberhard K. Jochem has been full Professor for Economics and Energy Economics in the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich (Swiss Institute of Technology) since 1999 where he founded the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE). He is also employed as a Senior Executive at the Fraunhofer Insti-tute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Eberhard Jochem approaches his research from the viewpoint of companies and sec-tors as well as from an administrative perspective in national, European and interna-tional contexts. He has been lecturing on various topics of technology assessment, energy issues, and the economics of national resources at Karlsruhe University since 1978 and since 1996 at the University of Kassel. He was and is a member in various national and international scientific advisory committees, among others as Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III (1997 to 2002). He is a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) since 2005. In 2001, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the German President for his interdisciplinary research and work on efficient use of energy and his bridge building between science, industry, and administration in this area. He got the Award of the Fondatione Energia and Gestore Servici Elettrici, Italy, for his contribution to sustainable development in 2006.
Research Areas
Techno-economic issues of efficient energy and material use, energy and climate policy
Education
- Master's Degree, Chemical Engineering, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- Ph. D., Technical University of Munich, Germany
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Eberhard K. Jochem
Topic: In a world where we need all the energy we can find, how do we do more with less?
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