Philippe Thalmann
Associate Professor
philippe.thalmann@epfl.ch +41 21 693 73 21 https://leure.epfl.ch
Citizenship: Swiss
Birth date: 11.06.1963
EPFL ENAC IA LEURE
BP 2137 (Bâtiment BP)
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1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://leure.epfl.ch
+41 21 693 73 21
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Fields of expertise
Climate economics
Economics of sustainable development
Housing economics
Real estate economics
Urban economics
Mission
Prof. Thalmann teaches real estate and housing economics to students in Architecture. He also teaches to students in engineering and sciences, mainly the economics of climate change, growth and sustainable development. Prof. Thalmann is the director of a Master of advanced studies in real estate economics, law and technology.His current research interests are concentrated in the economics of the natural and the built environment. In the first area, he is working mainly on policy instruments to curb polluting emissions, including voluntary approaches, and on climate change economics and policy. In the second area, he is working on issues of the housing and the real estate markets, such as housing policy, tenure choice, housing affordability, and real estate valuation.
Prof. Thalmann is or was president of the federal housing commission, member of the federal consulting commission for environmental research, of the consultative organ on climate change OcCC and of the "Forum for climate and global change ProClim" of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, of the steering committee of National research programme NRP 66 "Strategies and technologies for the optimal valorisation of wood", of the expert panel of the Swiss Competence Centers for Energy Research (SCCER) and of numerous other bodies and organisations. For a more detailled list, see the French version of this page.
Biography
Born in Lausanne in 1963, of Lucerne origin and bilingual. He studied economics at the University of Lausanne, graduating with a degree in 1984 and a postgraduate diploma in 1986. After teaching at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne, he was appointed Associate Professor of Economics at EPFL in 1994. His teaching and research activities cover the natural environment (environmental economics, climate economics, sustainable development economics) and the built environment (construction, real estate and housing economics). He heads the Laboratory of Urban and Environmental Economics (LEURE), which is attached to the Natural, Architectural and Built Environment Faculty (ENAC) of EPFL.Publications
Infoscience publications
Research
Information
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Teaching
Architecture
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