Dr. Yann Blumer

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Senior Researcher and Lecturer
• Senior Researcher and Lecturer

Focus

Energy and Sustainability, Science-Practice Interface, Sustainable Consumption

Experience

Research Associate
ETH Zürich, USYS TdLab
06 / 2009 - 06 / 2014

Education and Continuing education

Education

Dr. Sc. ETH Zürich / Environmental Sciences
ETH Zürich
10 / 2010 - 01 / 2014

Continuing Education

CAS in Higher & Professional Education
ZHAW
08 / 2017

Network

Media presence

NRP 73 Podcast: Sustainable Use of Mobile Devices

Projects

• SWEET COSI – Co-Evolution and Coordinated Simulation of the Swiss Energy System and Swiss Society / Project leader / Project ongoing
• 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.

  13(4), pp. 044025.

  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/

• Blumer, Yann; Czellar, Sandor; Duque, Diana; Haasova, Simona; Kühne, Swen J.; Rahmani, Leila; Schubert, Renate; Streule, Pascal; Waller, Gregor,

  2024.

  Swiss Sustainable Consumption Observatory (SSCO) 2021-2023 : key insights from the first three waves.

  ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2496

• 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

• Sierro, Fabienne; Blumer, Yann; Jobin, Marilou; Moser, Corinne,

  2023.

  UNLOCK-PV : die Rolle innovativer Investitionsmodelle in PV zur Beschleunigung der Energiewende.

  Bern:

  Bundesamt für Energie.

  Available from: https://www.aramis.admin.ch/Default?DocumentID=70581

• 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.

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