Author: Prakhar Mehta

After three and a half years of unwavering dedication, extensive collaborations resulting in 13 impactful research papers, and invaluable contributions to our research group's academic and administrative landscape, we wholeheartedly congratulate Leonard Michels on successfully defending his PhD diss...

We congratulate Prakhar Mehta, PhD candidate at the group, and his co-authors Dr. Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez and Dr. Danielle Griego at ETH Zurich for their publication in the highly reputed journal of Energy Policy. The key objective of the research was to evaluate how energy policy design can impa...

Leonard Michels has returned from his research exchange at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. Under the guidance of professors Ayelet and Uri Gneezy, he explored the fields of behavioral economics and behavioral marketing. Specifically, Leo worked on a project...

How can data donations be encouraged using digital nudges? In an interdisciplinary and inter-university cooperation for the "DataDonations4SustainableChange" project, Prof. Verena Tiefenbeck and the group will address the question of how awareness and willingness to donate data can be promoted us...

We are delighted to announce that our research on solar energy community configurations has been published open access in the journal Sustainable Cities and Society! In this work, we analyse how a solar energy community's configuration (number of members, share of prosumers and installed PV capac...

On Sept. 16, Verena Tiefenbeck gave a keynote talk at the 11th International Conference on Energy Informatics in Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. In her talk “From Control Loops to Control Groups: Human Behavior and the Energy Transition”, she highlighted that the human factor will play a more and mor...

Bits to Energy Lab is thrilled to host Alejandro Peña-Bello on his research exchange from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Alejandro's research deals with the assessment of battery systems at the local level by using environmental and techno-economic optimization. While at Bits to Energy, he...

In February 2020, Kathrin Schmitt and Prakhar Mehta joined the Bits to Energy Lab as Researchers. Kathrin holds a master's degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim, and Prakhar has a background in Energy Science and Technology from ETH Zurich. We're very happy to have you two on board!