PD Dr. Joachim Markard

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

• Senior Researcher
• Senior Researcher

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

Klimaschutz, Erneuerbare Energien, Innovation, Nachhaltige Transformation

Netzwerk

Mitglied in Netzwerken

• Sustainability Transitions Research Network
• European Group for Organizational Studies
• European Consortium for Political Research
• Twitter @JochenMarkard

Auszeichnungen

Highly Cited Researcher 2022
Web of Science, Clarivate
11 / 2022

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

• Sudheshwar, A., Apel, C., Kümmerer, K., Soeteman‐Hernández, L. G., Scheper, J. K., Falk, A., Batel, A., Markard, J., Som, C., Wang, Z., & Nowack, B. (2025). Safe and sustainable-by-design under the European Green Deal : regulatory readiness or pressure for companies? Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, vjaf188. https://doi.org/10.1093/inteam/vjaf188
• Rosenbloom, D., Meadowcroft, J., Markard, J., Landry, J.-S., & Kabbara, M. (2025). Dead-end pathways : conceptualizing, assessing, avoiding. PLOS Climate, 4(8), e0000693. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000693
• Mellot, A., Moretti, C., Nuñez-Jimenez, A., Linder, J., Moro, N., Powell, S., Markard, J., Winzer, C., & Patt, A. (2025). Electrification, flexibility or both? : emerging trends in European energy policy. Energy Policy, 206(114725). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114725
• Sovacool, B. K., Geels, F. W., Andersen, A. D., Grubb, M., Jordan, A. J., Kern, F., Kivimaa, P., Lockwood, M., Markard, J., Meadowcroft, J., Meckling, J., Moore, B., Raven, R., Rogge, K. S., Rosenbloom, D., Schmidt, T. S., Schot, J., Sharp, D., Stephenson, J., et al. (2025). The acceleration of low-carbon transitions : insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research. Energy Research & Social Science, 121(103948). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.103948
• Löhr, M., Markard, J., & Ohlendorf, N. (2024). (Un)usual advocacy coalitions in a multi-system setting: the case of hydrogen in Germany. Policy Sciences, 57(3), 567–597. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09536-7
• Raven, R., Hadfield, P., Butler, B., Eagleton, J., Giraud, G., Jacob, M., Markard, J., Schiller, K., Swilling, M., & Tshangela, M. (2023). Transitioning to sustainable academic conferences needs more experimentation and reflection. Global Sustainability, 6, e16. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2023.15
• Markard, J., Wells, P., Yap, X.-S., & van Lente, H. (2023). Unsustainabilities : a study on SUVs and space tourism and a research agenda for transition studies. Energy Research & Social Science, 106(103302). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103302
• Andersen, A. D., Markard, J., Bauknecht, D., & Korpås, M. (2023). Architectural change in accelerating transitions : actor preferences, system architectures, and flexibility technologies in the German energy transition. Energy Research & Social Science, 97(102945). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102945
• Ohlendorf, N., Löhr, M., & Markard, J. (2023). Actors in multi-sector transitions : discourse analysis on hydrogen in Germany. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 47(100692). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100692
• Markard, J., Rinscheid, A., & Widdel, L. (2021). Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks : coal phase-out in Germany. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 40, 315–331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.08.001
• Markard, J., van Lente, H., Wells, P., & Yap, X.-S. (2021). Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 41, 39–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.10.012
• Rinscheid, A., Rosenbloom, D., Markard, J., & Turnheim, B. (2021). From terminating to transforming : the role of phase-out in sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 41, 27–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.10.019
• Rosenbloom, D., Markard, J., Geels, F. W., & Fuenfschilling, L. (2020). Reply to van den Bergh and Botzen : a clash of paradigms over the role of carbon pricing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(38), 23221–23222. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014350117
• Markard, J., Geels, F. W., & Raven, R. (2020). Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions. Environmental Research Letters, 15(8), 81001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9468
• Sinsel, S. R., Markard, J., & Hoffmann, V. H. (2020). How deployment policies affect innovation in complementary technologies—evidence from the German energy transition. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120274
• Musiolik, J., Markard, J., Hekkert, M., & Furrer, B. (2020). Creating innovation systems : how resource constellations affect the strategies of system builders. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 153(119209). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.02.002

Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed

• Markard, J., Isoaho, K., & Widdel, L. (2023). Discourses around decline : comparing the debates on coal phase-out in the UK, Germany and Finland. In Z. Koretsky, P. Stegmaier, B. Turnheim, & H. van Lente (Eds.), Technologies in Decline: Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation (pp. 119–144). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003213642-5
• Markard, J., & Rosenbloom, D. (2023). Phases of the net-zero energy transition and strategies to achieve it. In K. Araújo (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003183020-8
• Araújo, K. M., Foxon, T. J., Markard, J., Raven, R., & Schaeffer, R. (2023). Reconceptualizing the next frontier in energy transitions. In K. Araújo (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003183020-34

Weitere Publikationen

• Yanguas Parra, P. A., & Markard, J. (2025). Policies for accelerating fossil heating systems replacement and building renovation. https://www.renowave.ch/pdf/180050-Accelerating_fossil_heater_replacements.pdf
• Neu, U., Markard, J., Betz, R., Boulouchos, K., Pautz, A., & Stadelmann, I. (2025). Perspektiven für die Kernenergie in der Schweiz : Grundlagenbericht. Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15599182
• Boulouchos, K., Neu, U., Baranzini, A., Kröcher, O., & Markard, J. (2022). Schweizer Energiesystem 2050 : Wege zu netto null CO2 und Versorgungssicherheit. Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6967076
• Bencsik, B., Kubli, M., Markard, J., Palmié, M., Wemyss, D., & Zobel, A.-K. (2020). Erfolg durch Partnerschaft : neue Kollaborationsmodelle für einen Energiemarkt im Wandel. SCCER CREST. https://www.sccer-crest.ch/fileadmin/FILES/Datenbank_Personen_Projekte_Publikationen/Publications/White_Papers/Final_White_Paper9_2020_WP1_Erfolg_durch_Partnerschaft.pdf

Publikationen vor Tätigkeit an der ZHAW

• Rosenbloom, D., Markard, J., Geels, F.W., Fuenfschilling, L. (2020): Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change — and how “sustainability transition policy” can help Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 8664-​8668.
• Markard, J.; Rosenbloom, D. (2020): “Political conflict and climate policy: The European Emissions Trading System as a Trojan Horse for the low-​carbon transition?” Climate Policy 20(9), 1092-1111
• Rosenbloom, D.; Markard, J. (2020): “A COVID-​19 recovery strategy for climate” Science, Editorial, 364(6490), 477
• Markard, J.; Bento, N.; Kittner, N.; Nuñez-​Jimenez, A. (2020): “Destined for decline? Critically examining nuclear energy with a technological innovation systems perspective.” Energy Research and Social Science, 67, 101512.
• Markard, J. (2020): “The life cycle of technological innovation systems.” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 153
• Markard J. (2018): "The next phase of the energy transition and its implications for research and policy." Nature Energy, 3(8), 628-​633.
• Markard, J.; Suter, M.; Ingold, K. (2016): "Socio-​technical transitions and policy change – Advocacy coalitions in Swiss energy policy." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 18, 215-​237

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