Christoph Frei

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Adjunct Professor

christoph.frei@epfl.ch

Citizenship: Swiss

EPFL CEN
BAC 104 (Château de Bassenges)
Station 5
1015 Lausanne

Office: BAC 104
EPFL > VPA-AVP-CP > CEN > CEN-GE

Web site: Web site: https://energycenter.epfl.ch/

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Administrative data

Fields of expertise

International energy & environment policy and strategy: - energy scenarios - energy policy benchmarking - ultilities

Mission

Asking the right questions to shape our future.
>> follow me on twitter @chwfrei

Biography

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- Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures
- titulary Professor and Advisor to the President of EPFL
- Board Member
- Facilitator
Prior positions
- CEO & Secretary General at the World Energy Council
- member of UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Sustainable Energy
- member of World Economic Forum’s ExCom

RECENT PROJECTS

> Global Energy Scenarios 2030/50: connecting the dots between critical uncertainties > Energy & Climate Country Policies Assesment: assessing and ranking national energy and climate policies in over 90 countries > Energy 2.0: smart energy and changing consumer behaviour to trigger an energy tipping point > Urban Innovation / SlimCity: market place for successful practices in cities to catalyse resource efficiency improvements > Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change: facilitating a business voice towards a post-2012 climate framework > Energy Security Roundtable: identifying emerging challenges > Energy Access Partnership: electrifying villages in Sub-Saharan Africa > Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels: consensus building on principles for sustainable biofuels > Partnering Against Corruption (PACI): improving the level playing field

LANGUAGES

German - fluent French - fluent English - fluent Italian - so-so Spanish - basic

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Personal top seven favorites are labelled with ***. Should you have problems in accessing any of the below articles, please do not hesitate to contact me. - 2009 - *** Daniel Yergin and Christoph W. Frei. Thirsty Energy: Water and Energy in the 21st Century. Energy Vision Update 2009, Editorial. World Economic Forum, January 2009. - 2008 - *** Christoph W. Frei. What if? Utility vision 2020. Energy Policy, Vol. 36, 2008, pp. 36403645, Elsevier, ISSN: 0301-4215. Daniel Yergin and Christoph W. Frei. Solving the Energy Puzzle through Innovation. Energy Vision Update 2008, Editorial. World Economic Forum, January 2008. - 2007 - *** Christoph W. Frei. Different energy visions and implications for the energy future. Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book 2007, Henley Media Group, June 2007. Christoph W. Frei. Blueprint for a global energy authority. Europe

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Industrial European regions at risk within the Fit for 55: How far implementing CBAM can mitigate?

S. Perdana; M. Vielle

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.rset.2024.100088.

Christoph Frei

Adjunct Professor

Fields of expertise

Mission

Biography

RECENT PROJECTS

LANGUAGES

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Industrial European regions at risk within the Fit for 55: How far implementing CBAM can mitigate?

Église castrale d’Akerentia. Étude archéologique d’un ensemble monumental au cœur de la Calabre

Influence of Si3N4 fillers and pyrolysis profile on the microstructure of additively manufactured silicon carbonitride ceramics derived from polyvinylsilazane

Data-driven LPV Disturbance Rejection Control with IQC-based Stability Guarantees for Rate-bounded Scheduling Parameter Variations

Ukrainian Literary Imaginaries of Past after 1991: From Substitution to Restoration?

Subwavelength imaging using a solid-immersion diffractive optical processor

Enabling simultaneous reprocessability and fire protection via incorporation of phosphine oxide monomer in epoxy vitrimer

Optically responsive dry cholesteric liquid crystal marbles

FENNECS: a novel particle-in-cell code for simulating the formation of magnetized non-neutral plasmas trapped by electrodes of complex geometries

Fine Arts in Transition: An Operative Research and Teaching Approach between Analogue and Digital

Советская городская память в юбилейных форматах [Soviet urban memory in anniversary formats (late 1930s - late 1980s of the XX century)]

'Fraternal-twin' ferroelectricity: competing polar states in hydrogen-doped samarium nickelate from first principles

Highly dispersed nanomaterials in polymer matrix via aerosol-jet-based multi-material 3D printing

Strengthening of edge prism dislocations in Mg-Zn by cross-core diffusion

From low-rank retractions to dynamical low-rank approximation and back

Non-negative matrix factorization-aided phase unmixing and trace element quantification of STEM-EDXS data

Improving the operational stability of perovskite solar cells with cesium-doped graphene oxide interlayer

Complex-order scale-invariant operators and self-similar processes

Prolamins' 3D structure: A new insight into protein modeling using the language of numbers and shapes

Strain-based analysis on the influence of local undercut geometry on fatigue crack initiation life

Laser Doppler Vibrometer measurements of the 3D pressure field for the estimation of the radiation force produced by an acoustic standing-wave levitator

Enhanced performance of perovskite solar cell via up-conversion YLiF4:Yb, Er nanoparticles

Encapsulation strategies for mechanical impact and damp heat reliability improvement of lightweight photovoltaic modules towards vehicle-integrated applications

Overview of fast particle experiments in the first MAST Upgrade experimental campaigns

Convalescent human plasma candidate reference materials protect against Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) challenge in an A129 mouse model

Succinct ordering and aggregation constraints in algebraic array theories

Time-Delay Cosmography: Measuring the Hubble Constant and Other Cosmological Parameters with Strong Gravitational Lensing

Correlating long-term performance and aging behaviour of building integrated PV modules

First-principles thermodynamics of precipitation in aluminum-containing refractory alloys

A hybrid physics-based and data-driven model for intra-day and day-ahead wind power forecasting considering a drastically expanded predictor search space

Artificial intelligence of things for synergizing smarter eco-city brain, metabolism, and platform: Pioneering data-driven environmental governance

A machine learning architecture for including wave breaking in envelope-type wave models

Flexible free-standing Fe-CoP-NAs/CC nanoarrays for high-performance full lithium-ion batteries

Design of a Beam Separator for FLASH Electron Therapy Facilities

TIC-TAC: A Framework for Improved Covariance Estimation in Deep Heteroscedastic Regression

«Novye idei» i disciplinarnye tradicii: perevodcheskie i publikatorskie strategii izdatel'stva «Obrazovanie» v 1910–1920-e gody

Climate risk assessment of buildings: An analysis of operating emissions of commercial offices in Australia

Perfectly matched layers for the Boltzmann equation: Stability and sensitivity analysis

Design and Evaluation of Modular Gas and Wind Sensing Nodes for Static and Mobile Deployments

Experimental and ab initio derivation of interface stress in nanomultilayered coatings: Application to immiscible Cu/W system with variable in-plane stress

Flow and Snow in Complex Terrain

Decarbonization potential of steel fibre-reinforced limestone calcined clay cement concrete one-way slabs

Data-Driven Control Synthesis using Koopman Operator: A Robust Approach

Energy-Efficient Frequency Selection Method for Bio-Signal Acquisition in AI/ML Wearables

Electrically tunable giant Nernst effect in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures

Numerical study of optical transmission in silver plasmonic square nanohole and its to windows

Permanently magnetized elastomer rotating actuator using traveling waves

The Complete CEERS Early Universe Galaxy Sample: A Surprisingly Slow Evolution of the Space Density of Bright Galaxies at z ∼ 8.5-14.5

Study of impurity C transport and plasma rotation in negative triangularity on the TCV tokamak

DTT toroidal field conductor samples test in Sultan: DC and AC characterization

An integrated heart-torso electromechanical model for the simulation of electrophysiological outputs accounting for myocardial deformation

Tracking deep-level defects in degrading perovskite solar cells with a multifactorial approach

Development of a scintillator based fast-ion loss detector for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator

The synergistic interplay of artificial intelligence and digital twin in environmentally planning sustainable smart cities: A comprehensive systematic review

A state-of-the-art, systematic review of indoor environmental quality studies in work-from-home settings

Design ontology for cognitive thread supporting traceability management in model-based systems engineering

Sustainable, recyclable and biodegradable castor oil-derived elastomers enabled by dynamic acetoacetyl formed amides

Non-targeted facilitation of primary sludge anaerobic fermentation by micro-aeration and the simultaneous nutrients transformations

Strategy to systematically design and deploy the ITER plasma control system: A system engineering and model-based design approach

Models implemented in the methodological approach to design the initial STEP first wall contour

Physical insights from the aspect ratio dependence of turbulence in negative triangularity plasmas

Parental status and markers of brain and cellular age: A 3D convolutional network and classification study

Asymmetric fin shape changes swimming dynamics of ancient marine reptiles' soft robophysical models

Positional Embeddings for Solving PDEs with Evolutional Deep Neural Networks

Exploring the Dominant Discourse in Mega-events Legacy and Industrial Heritage Reuse through a Relationship Matrix

Carbon flows at neighborhood scale Case study in Geneva, Switzerland

Renaturation of urban rivers as a climate adaptation strategy Case study in Geneva, Switzerland

The Effect of Rivers on Energy Balance at the Neighborhood Scale. A comparative analysis of four Rhodanian sites in France and Switzerland

Development of Ti-Zr-Mn based AB 2 type metal hydrides alloys for an 865 bar two-stage hydrogen compressor