Laura Archer-Svoboda

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate

Focus

Sustainable Finance, Real Estate, Portfolio Management, Innosuisse Innovation Projects

Teaching

Lecturer: MSc. Banking & Finance, MSc. Real Estate & Facility Management

Experience

• Member of the Board of Directors
  Baugenossenschaft Sonnengarten, Zürich
  04 / 2022 - today
• Key Account Consultant
  CBRE (Zürich) AG, Zürich
  02 / 2010 - 07 / 2016
• Structural Engineer
  Henauer Gugler AG / Ingenieurbureau Heierli AG / Emch & Berger, Zürich
  01 / 2005 - 12 / 2009

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Science (MSc) Banking & Finance / Capital Markets & Data Science
  ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur
  09 / 2021 - 06 / 2023
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Betriebsökonomie / Banking & Finance
  ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur
  09 / 2017 - 06 / 2021
• Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering / Structural Engineering
  Queen's University, Kingston, Kanada
  09 / 1998 - 05 / 2003

Network

Membership of networks

LinkedIn

Awards

A Lifetime Member of Beta Gamma Sigma
ZHAW School of Management and Law
09 / 2023

Projects

• Towards Transparent and Energy-Efficient Real Estate Markets: A Smart Model for Renovation-Adjusted Property Valuation and Investment Decisions / Project leader / ongoing
• Assessing Climate Risks for Real Estate and Infrastructure Portfolios / Deputy project leader / completed
• Risk Management and Analysis Tool for Lease-to-Purchase Homeownership / Deputy project leader / completed
• Decision Based Tools for the Climate Resilience of Real Estate / Co-project leader / completed
• Climate Rating for Real Estate Portfolios / Project leader / completed
• Satellite and Network-Analysis based Climate Impact Measurement Tool for Real Estate / Deputy project leader / completed
• ERREP - ESG Rating for Real Estate Portfolios / Co-project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Orpiszewski, T. et al. (2026) 'Swiss real estate funds and climate-related flood exposure : is diversification the key?', Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, 18(1), p. 2649063. doi: 10.1080/19498276.2026.2649063.
• Orpiszewski, T., Thompson, M. J. and Archer-Svoboda, L. (2025) 'Geographic diversification, proximity bias and performance of Swiss real estate funds', Journal of European Real Estate Research, 18(3), pp. 441–462. doi: 10.1108/jerer-11-2024-0081.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Orpiszewski, T., Thompson, M. J. and Archer-Svoboda, L. (2025) 'Geographic diversification, proximity bias, and performance of Swiss real estate funds', in 31st Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Athen, Greece, 2-5 July 2025.
• Orpiszewski, T. et al. (2025) 'Swiss real estate funds and climate-related flood exposure : is diversification the key?', in 31st Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Athen, Greece, 2-5 July 2025.
• Archer-Svoboda, L., Orpiszewski, T. and Thompson, M. (2025) 'Property energy efficiency and financial performance : evidence from Swiss real estate fund portfolios', in 31st Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Athens, Greece, 2-5 July 2025.

Other publications

Archer-Svoboda, L. and Kimmerle, H. (2023) Sustainable real estate investments : insights for direct real estate investors. Zurich: Swiss Sustainable Finance. Available at: https://www.sustainablefinance.ch/api/rm/33DYR5T92XPH3G4/ssf-pub-report-real-estate-en-final.pdf.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Archer-Svoboda, L. (2024) 'Innosuisse project Climate Rating for Real Estate Portfolios', in AI+X Summit, Zurich, Switzerland, 3-4 October 2024.
• Archer-Svoboda, L. and Schnauss, M. (2024) 'Climate rating for real estate portfolios', in 30th Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Gdańsk, Poland, 26-29 June 2024.

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