Dr. Yann Blumer

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Senior Researcher and Lecturer
Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

www.zhaw.ch/de/sml/institute-zentren/cie/

Expertise and research interests

Energy, Energy Scenarios, Communal Energy Strategies, Energy Security, Foresight, Digital Devices

Educational background

Dr. Sc. ETH Zürich
BSc Environmental Engineering ETH Zürich
MSc Environmental Sciences ETH Zürich

Membership of networks

Swiss Competence Center for Research in Energy, Society and Transition - CREST

Projects

• ProdUse – Closing the gap between model-based energy scenarios and its potential users to support evidence-based decision-making for the transformation of the Swiss energy system / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Facilitating the start for hydrothermal geothermal projects in Switzerland / Team member / Project completed
• UNLOCK-PV – Analyse des Potentials von gemeinschaftlich finanzierten PV-Anlagen zur Beschleunigung der Transformation des Schweizer Energiesystems / Project leader / Project completed
• Immersive Stories of Energy Futures (ISTEF) / Project co-leader / Project completed
• Extending the lifespan of mobile devices / Project leader / Project completed
• Reallabor Hunziker Areal: Partizipativ entwickelte Feldexperimente zur Förderung von suffizientem Umgang mit Ressourcen / Team member / Project completed
• Integrated development processes for hydropower and deep geothermal projects: Regulatory, political and participatory perspectives - Part ZHAW-INE / Team member / Project completed
• Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER CREST) / Team member / Project completed
• Regulatorische Hemmnisse energetischer Gebäudesanierung in Winterthur / Project leader / Project completed
• UNCTAD Strategic Foresight / Team member / Project completed
• An actor perspective on municipal energy policy / Project leader / Project completed
• Smart home from a user perspective - a meta analysis / Project leader / Project completed
• NRP71: Promoting energy-sufficient behaviour in cities / Deputy project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Braunreiter, Lukas; Marchand, Christina; Blumer, Yann,

  2023.

  Exploring possible futures or reinforcing the status-quo? : the use of model-based scenarios in the Swiss energy industry.

  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition.

  2023(3), pp. 100046.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rset.2023.100046

• Bieser, Jan C.T.; Blumer, Yann; Burkhalter, Linda; Itten, René; Jobin, Marilou; Hilty, Lorenz M.; et al.,

  2022.

  Consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones’ service lifetime.

  Cleaner and Responsible Consumption.

  7(100074).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100074

• Tomic, Uros; Moser, Corinne; Blumer, Yann; Stauffacher, Michael; Seidl, Roman; et al.,

  2020.

  Exploring the role of positive direct experience in the adoption of energy efficient technologies : evidence from a Swiss field study on the promotion of low-flow showerheads.

  PLOS ONE.

  15(3), pp. e0230255.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230255

• Braunreiter, Lukas; Stauffacher, Michael; Blumer, Yann Benedict,

  2020.

  How the public imagines the energy future : exploring and clustering non-experts’ techno-economic expectations towards the future energy system.

  PLOS ONE.

  15(3), pp. e0227369.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227369

• Moser, Corinne; Frick, Vivian; Seidl, Roman; Blumer, Yann,

  2019.

  Teaming up for sustainability : promoting sustainable mobility behaviour through sports clubs in Switzerland.

  Energy Research & Social Science.

  2019(53), pp. 89-97.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.02.016

• Moser, Corinne; Blumer, Yann; Hille, Stefanie Lena,

  2018.

  E-bike trials’ potential to promote sustained changes in car owners’ mobility habits.

  Environmental Research Letters.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaad73

• Blumer, Yann; Braunreiter, Lukas; Kachi, Aya; Lordan-Perret, Rebecca; Oeri, Fintan,

  2018.

  A two-level analysis of public support : exploring the role of beliefs in opinions about the Swiss energy strategy.

  Energy Research & Social Science.

  43, pp. 109-118.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.05.024

• Braunreiter, Lukas; Blumer, Yann,

  2018.

  Of sailors and divers : how researchers use energy scenarios.

  Energy Research & Social Science.

  40, pp. 118-126.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.12.003

• Seidl, Roman; Moser, Corinne; Blumer, Yann,

  2017.

  Navigating behavioral energy sufficiency : results from a survey in Swiss cities on potential behavior change.

  PLOS ONE.

  12(10), pp. e0185963.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185963

• Moser, Corinne; Stauffacher, Michael; Blumer, Yann B.; Scholz, Roland W.,

  2015.

  From risk to vulnerability : the role of perceived adaptive capacity for the acceptance of contested infrastructure.

  Journal of Risk Research.

  18(5), pp. 622-636.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2014.910687

• Blumer, Yann B.; Moser, Corinne; Patt, Anthony; Seidl, Roman,

  2015.

  The precarious consensus on the importance of energy security : contrasting views between Swiss energy users and experts.

  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

  52, pp. 927-936.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.081

• Epprecht, Nils; Von Wirth, Timo; Stünzi, Christian; Blumer, Yann,

  2014.

  Anticipating transitions beyond the current mobility regimes : how acceptability matters.

  Futures.

  60, pp. 30-40.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2014.04.001

• Blumer, Yann Benedict; Mühlebach, Martin; Moser, Corinne,

  2014.

  Why some electricity utilities actively promote energy efficiency while others do not : a Swiss case study.

  Energy Efficiency.

  7(4), pp. 697-710.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-013-9249-z

• Blumer, Yann; Stauffacher, Michael; Lang, Daniel J.; Hayashi, Kiyotada; Uchida, Susumu,

  2013.

  Non-technical success factors for bioenergy projects : learning from a multiple case study in Japan.

  Energy Policy.

  60, pp. 386-395.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.05.075

• Blumer, Yann,

  2014.

  Non-technical challenges for the transition of energy systems.

  Zürich:

  ETH Zürich.

  Diss. ETH ; 21717.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010280640

• Bieser, Jan; Burkhalter, Linda; Hilty, Lorenz M.; Fuchs, Basil; Blumer, Yann,

  2021.

  Lifetime extension of mobile internet-enabled devices : measures, challenges and environmental implications [paper].

  In:

  Conference Proceedings of PLATE 2021.

  4th Conference on Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE), Virtual Conference, Limerick, 26-28 May 2021.

  University of Limerick.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.31880/10344/10165

• Jattke, Marleen; Bieser, Jan; Blumer, Yann; Itten, René; Stucki, Matthias,

  2020.

  Environmental implications of service life extension of mobile devices [paper].

  In:

  Otto, S. J.; Korf, N.; Mählitz, P. M.; Rotter, V. S., eds.,

  WEEE plastic characterization and recyclability assessment : a case study for household appliances.

  Electronics Goes Green 2020+, Online, 1. September 2020.

  Berlin:

  Fraunhofer IZM.

  pp. 163-170.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20808

• Janda, Kathryn B.; Reindl, Katharina; Blumer, Yann; Parag, Yael; Wade, Faye,

  2019.

  Making more of middles : advancing the middle-out perspective in energy system transformation [paper].

  In:

  eceee 2019 Summer Study on energy efficiency : is efficient sufficient?.

  European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee) 2019 Summer Study, Presqu'île de Giens, France, 3-8 June 2019.

  European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.

  pp. 199-204.

  Available from: https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2019/1-the-dynamics-of-limiting-energy-consumption/making-more-of-middles-advancing-the-middle-out-perspective-in-energy-system-transformation/

• Moser, Corinne; Blumer, Yann; Seidl, Roman; Carabias-Hütter, Vicente; Furrer, Bettina,

  2015.

  Multiplying energy-saving behaviour in cities through formal social groups [paper].

  In:

  Laitinen Lindström, Therese; Borg & Co, Stockholm, Sweden, eds.,

  eceee Summer Study proceedings : eceee 2015 Summer Study – First fuel now.

  ECEEE 2015 Summer Study «First fuel now» Toulon/Hyères, France, 1-6 June 2015.

  pp. 2133-2141.

  Available from: https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2015/9-dynamics-of-consumption/multiplying-energy-saving-behaviour-in-cities-through-formal-social-groups/

• L'Orange Seigo, Selma; Probst, Matthias; Stauffacher, Michael; Lobsiger, Evelyn; Blumer, Yann, eds.,

  2023.

  Interventionen in Reallaboren : ein Handbuch für die Praxis.

  Zürich:

  ETH Zürich, TdLAB.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000608410

• Skirgaila, Patricia; Streule, Pascal; Külling, Céline; Blumer, Yann; Waller, Gregor,

  2023.

  Nachhaltiger durch längere Nutzung : Befragung zu Smartphonekauf und -nutzung in der Schweiz.

  Zürich:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27618

• Krysiak, Frank C.; Burger, Paul; Blumer, Yann; Braunreiter, Lukas; Cometta, Claudio; Emmenegger, Rony; Lordan-Perret, Rebecca; Marcucci, Adriana; Roux, Catherine; Sohre, Annika,

  2021.

  Von Modellen zu Visionen : Ansätze zur Ergänzung von quantitativen Energieszenarien.

  SCCER CREST White Paper

  ; 11.

  SCCER CREST.

  Available from: https://www.sccer-crest.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/White_Paper_11_2021_von_Modellen_zu_Visionen.pdf

• Sierro, Fabienne; Zundritsch, Patricia; Blumer, Yann; Lilliestam, Johan; Ejderyan, Olivier,

  2021.

  Erfolgreiche partizipative Projektentwicklung findet auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen der Zusammenarbeit statt : Erkenntnisse aus zwei Wasserkraftprojekten.

  Wasser, Energie, Luft.

  113(2), pp. 105-109.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-966187

• Braunreiter, Lukas; Blumer, Yann,

  2021.

  Es gilt, die Menschen ins Zentrum zu stellen.

  Energie & Umwelt.

  2021(3), pp. 14-15.

  Available from: https://www.energiestiftung.ch/id-2021-3-es-gilt-die-menschen-ins-zentrum-zu-stellen.html

• Jobin, Marilou; Külling, Céline; Jattke, Marleen; Blumer, Yann,

  2020.

  Extending the lifetime of mobile devices to reduce their environmental impact : a glimpse on the project LIFESAVING.

  SocietyByte.

  2020.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21566

• Seidl, Roman; Stauffacher, Michael; Tomic, Uros; Moser, Corinne; Blumer, Yann,

  2017.

  Transition experiments under the shower : energy-saving campaigns with formal social groups [paper].

  In:

  The 8th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Chalmers Initiative for Innovation and Sustainability Transitions (CIIST), Gothenburg, Sweden, 18-21 June 2017.

• Seidl, Roman; Stauffacher, Michael; Tomic, Uros; Moser, Corinne; Blumer, Yann,

  2017.

  Transition experiments under the shower : energy-saving campaigns with formal social groups [paper].

  In:

  hopefulNESS 2017: The 13th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, University of Tampere: School of Management, Tampere, Finland, 6-8 June 2017.

• Braunreiter, Lukas; Wemyss, Devon; Kobe, Carmen; Müller, Adrian W.; Krause, Thilo; Blumer, Yann,

  2016.

  Understandig the Role of Scenarios in Swiss Energy Research.

  SML Working Paper

  ; 13.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1137

• Cometta, Claudio; Blumer, Yann,

  2016.

  Energieversorger im Wandel.

  Handelszeitung.

  pp. 47.

• Moser, Corinne; Blumer, Yann; Hille, Stefanie Lena,

  2016.

  Getting started on a car diet : assessing the behavioural impacts of an e-bike trial in Switzerland [paper].

  In:

  International Energy Policies & Programmes Evaluation Conference (IEPPEC), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 7-9 June 2016.

  IEPPEC.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1571

• Blumer, Yann,

  2016.

  Mehr Engagement für weniger Energie.

  Thema Umwelt.

  2016(1), pp. 18-19.

• Cometta, Claudio; Blumer, Yann; Hertach, Christian,

  2016.

  Vom Versorger zum Dienstleister : Resultate einer Befragung unter Schweizer EVUs.

  Bulletin: Fachzeitschrift und Verbandsinformationen von Electrosuisse und VSE.

  2016(3), pp. 9-12.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-857097

• Blumer, Yann; Wemyss, Devon; Moser, Corinne,

  2015.

  How cities can foster local action in energy efficiency by utilizing middle actors : insights from a Swiss case study [paper].

  In:

  ECEEE summer study proceedings.

  ECEEE 2015 Summer Study «First fuel now» Toulon/Hyères, France, 1-6 June 2015.

  Stockholm:

  European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy ECEEE.

  pp. 653-660.

• Wemyss, Devon; Blumer, Yann,

  2015.

  Indicators of innovation : empirical insights into activities, challenges and strategies of Swiss energy sector start-ups.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

• Lilliestam, Johan; Blumer, Yann; Geddes, Anna; Späth, Leonhard; Van Vliet, Oscar,

  2014.

  More than costs : on the fit between solar and renewable electricity policy motivations and energy system models

  .

  In:

  Bailey, Stephen, ed.,

  Solar power : technologies, environmental impacts and future prospects.

  New York:

  Nova Science Publishers.

  pp. 23-55.

  Energy science, engineering, and technology.

• Blumer, Yann Benedict; Lilliestam, Johan; Moser, Corinne; Seidl, Roman,

  2014.

  Eine Frage der Perspektive : Energiesicherheit in der Debatte um die Schweizer Energiezukunft.

  Bulletin: Fachzeitschrift und Verbandsinformationen von Electrosuisse und VSE.

  105(10), pp. 9-12.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-856298

• Braunreiter, Lukas; Blumer, Yann,

  2018.

  Not only experts matter : the role of lay people’s expectations about the energy future in acceptability evaluations.

  In:

  Behave 2018 : Book of Abstracts.

  BEHAVE 2018 - 5th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency, Zurich, 5-7 September 2018.

  Zürich:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  pp. 67-68.

• Seidl, Roman; Stauffacher, Michael; Tomic, Uros; Moser, Corinne; Blumer, Yann,

  2017.

  Co-designing field experiments with cities : promoting energy-saving showerheads.

  In:

  Human Dimensions of Environmental Risks: Behavioural Experiments, Field Experiments, Survey Research, ENRI 2017, Environmental Research Group, Ascona, Switzerland, 21-26 May 2017.

• Blumer, Yann; Moser, Corinne,

  2016.

  Förderung von energiesparendem Verhalten in Städten durch Nutzung von Vereinen.

  In:

  Sitzung der OKI-Fachgruppe (Klima und Umwelt) - Klimabündnis Städte Schweiz (KBSS), Zürich, 28. Juni 2016.

• Blumer, Yann; Moser, Corinne; Gregorowius, Daniel,

  2016.

  Exploring how expectations of the future energy system shape individuals’ energy political attitudes.

  In:

  Energy Systems Conference 2016, London, United Kingdom, 14-15 June 2016.

• Moser, Corinne; Frick, Vivian; Blumer, Yann; Stauffacher, Michael; Seidl, Roman,

  2016.

  Sports clubs as multipliers for energy-saving campaigns? : developing and evaluating a mobility intervention together with the city of Winterthur (Switzerland).

  In:

  4th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency (BEHAVE 2016), Coimbra, Portugal, 8-9 September 2016.

• Blumer, Yann Benedict; Moser, Corinne,

  2014.

  Why some electricity utilities actively promote energy efficiency and others do not.

  In:

  24ème Journée du CUEPE, Genève, 19 September 2014.

• Blumer, Yann Benedict; Seidl, Roman; Moser, Corinne,

  2014.

  The precarious consensus on the importance of energy security.

  In:

  Energy Systems Conference 2014, London, United Kingdom, 24-25 June 2014.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Peer Reviewed Papers:

Blumer, Y., Mühlebach, M., Moser, C. (2014). Why some electricity utilities actively promote energy efficiency and others do not — a Swiss case study. Energy Efficiency, 7, 697-710.

Epprecht, N., von Wirth,T., Stünzi, C., Blumer, Y. (2014). Anticipating transitions beyond the current mobility regimes: how acceptability matters. Futures, 60, 30-40.

Blumer, Y., Stauffacher, M., Lang, D., Kiyotada, H., Uchida, S. (2013). Non-technical success factors for bioenergy projects - learning from a multiple case study in Japan. Energy Policy, 60, 386-395

Scholz, R., Blumer, Y., Brand, F. (2012). Risk, vulnerability, robustness and resilience from a decision-theoretic perspective. Journal of Risk Research, 15, 313-330.

Saner, D., Blumer, Y., Lang, D., Koehler, A. (2011). Scenarios for the implementation of EU waste legislation at national level and their consequences for emissions from municipal waste incineration. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 57, 67-77.


Further Publications:

Blumer, Y. (2014). Non-technical challenges for the transition of energy systems. Doctoral thesis Nr. 21’717. Zürich: ETH Zürich.

Baltensperger, T., Ruppen, D., Blumer, Y., Spörri, A. (2013) Analyse der schweizerischen Energieversorgungssicherheit - Eine Abschätzung der Verwundbarkeit des Energiesystems. Ittingen: BFE.

Blumer, Y. (2012). Die Schweizer Erdgasversorgung – Struktur- und Schwachstellenanalyse basierend auf Interviews mit Branchenexperten. Ittingen: BFE.

Blumer, Y. (2012). Die Schweizer Kernkraft – Struktur- und Schwachstellenanalyse basierend auf Interviews mit Branchenexperten. Ittingen: BFE.

Blumer, Y., Martin, S. (2012). Die Schweizer Wasserkraft – Struktur- und Schwachstellenanalyse basierend auf Interviews mit Branchenexperten. Ittingen: BFE.

Blumer, Y., Klarer, M. (2012). Die Schweizer Ölversorgungskette – Struktur- und Schwachstellen-analyse basierend auf Interviews mit Branchenexperten. Ittingen: BFE.

Blumer, Y., Martius, G., Stauffacher, M. (2011). Kleine EVUs unter Hochspannung – Eine Fallstudie der ETH Zürich zur Situation in den Kantonen St. Gallen und beide Appenzell. Bulletin SEV/VSE, 4, 8-11.

Probst, M., Bening, C., Blumer, Y., Friedrich, E., Hoppmann, J., Saner, D., Stauffacher, M. & Scholz, R. W. (2011). Herausforderungen und Chancen im Energiebereich für den Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden. Zürich: ETH Zürich.


Book Sections:

Lilliestam, J., Blumer, Y., Geddes, A., Labordena, M., Späth, L., van Vliet, O. (forthcoming 2014): More than costs: on the fit between solar and renewable electricity policy motivations and energy system models, in: Schlapa, J. (Ed.): Solar power: Technologies, environmental impacts and future prospects, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppage.

go back