Sascha Nick
Nationality: Swiss, Austrian
EPFL ENAC IA LEURE
BP 2141 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 42 17
Office:
BP 2141
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Current Work
Approach: Identify action levers to initiate and accelerate the societal transition towards low energy demand, 1.5°C pathways, biodiversity restoration, and inclusive wellbeing. Engage all levels of society—including policymakers, public institutions, and companies—in co-creating this transformation. Strengthen deliberative democracy: Academic Citizens’ Assembly
Sectoral transitions
- Swiss DLS: Energy requirements for securing wellbeing in Switzerland and the space for affluence and inequality, nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59276-2
- RE-BD AR2024. Accelerating renewable energy development while enhancing biodiversity protection in Switzerland
- Systems perspectives on transforming Swiss housing by 2040: wellbeing, shared spaces, sufficiency, and de-sprawl
- Operationalizing Switzerland-wide democratic transformation to functional resilient 8-minute neighborhoods
- Climate-neutral global aviation: mdpi.com/1911-8074/15/11/505
- Economics, financing, policy, and governance of Swiss Net Zero: go.epfl.ch/netzero, go.epfl.ch/SNEF
- Demand for low-quality offsets by major companies undermines climate integrity of the voluntary carbon market: nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51151-w
- Systems thinking, action levers and leverage points for societal transitions: doi.org/10.5075/epfl-thesis-10487
- Audit of Climate Plan Vaud 2020
Curriculum vitae
Sascha NICK
Teaching & PhD
Courses
Energy supply, economics and transition
ENG-410
This course examines energy systems from various angles: available resources, how they can be combined or substituted, their private and social costs, whether they can meet the energy demand, and how the transition to a renewable energy system can be fostered.
Wellbeing and Planetary Boundaries
HUM-226
A course for future scientists and engineers who want to build judgement under complexity: how to set priorities, assess trade-offs, and contribute to wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries.