Claudia R. Binder

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Full Professor

claudia.binder@epfl.ch +41 21 693 93 62 https://herus.epfl.ch

Citizenship: Swiss, Canadian, Colombian

EPFL ENAC IIE HERUS
GR C1 482 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne

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

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Fields of expertise

  • Transition research
  • Urban metabolism
  • Energy
  • Sustainability assessment
  • Regulatory mechanisms in human-environment systems
  • Systems science
  • Inter- and transdisciplinarity 












Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Courses

Energy supply, economics and transition

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.

Environmental system analysis and assessment

(Coursebook not yet approved by the section)

Sustainability assessment of urban systems

This course enables students to think critically about sustainability and to carry out a sustainability assessment based on problems of urban areas. At the end of the course, students are able to develop their own sustainability assessment using the Sustainability Solution Space methodology.

Material flow analysis and resource management

This course provides the basis to understand material and energy production and consumption processes. Students learn how to develop a material flow analysis and apply it to resource management cases. They analyze the implications of their models on resource use, economic activities and policy.