Dr. Tomasz Orpiszewski

Projects

• Trust but Verify: AI-Driven Deep Verification of ESG Controversies via RAG Pipelines / Project leader / ongoing
• Extracting Hidden Information on Building Energy State using Foundation AI Models applied to Remote Sensing Data and Street View Imagery / Project leader / ongoing
• Data-based Screening and Monitoring Methods for Tracking Environmental and Social Dynamic around Gold Mines / Project leader / ongoing
• Spatial sustainable finance: Satellite-based ratings of company footprints in biodiversity and water / Team member / ongoing
• Assessing Climate Risks for Real Estate and Infrastructure Portfolios / Project leader / completed
• Digitising Environmental Impacts using Geospatial Analytics / Team member / completed
• Climate Rating for Real Estate Portfolios / Deputy project leader / completed
• BioVaR – Assessing and Digitizing Risk Exposure Resulting from Biodiversity Loss / Co-project leader / completed
• Investor and Stakeholder Tools for Tracking Companies’ Climate Commitments, Greenwashing and ESG Trends / Team member / completed
• ERREP - ESG Rating for Real Estate Portfolios / Co-project leader / completed
• Development of Customizable ESG-compliant Financial Products for Swiss Asset Owners and Managers / Project leader / completed
• Tech4SDG – Guiding Swiss Asset Managers towards High-Impact SMEs / Co-project leader / completed
• Employing Natural Language Processing to identify inconsistencies in companies’ non-financial communication / Project leader / completed
• Environmental and Social Assessment at Mine Sites using Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics / Deputy project leader / completed
• Evidence-based Sustainable Finance / Project leader / completed
• Feeder Structure for the Swiss Social Exchange / Project leader / completed
• Hybrid Approach for Robust Identification and Measurement of Investors Driving Corporate Sustainability and Innovation. Design of Policy Tools for Evaluating the Impact of Specific Investors and Assessing the Quality of Companies’ Investor Bases. / Project leader / completed
• Systematic and Automated Investment Process for Selection of Investment Funds / Project leader / completed
• Investment Process for Niche and Alternative Products / Project leader / completed
• Currency hedging for SMEs and pension funds / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Weibel, M., Bohn, J. R., Orpiszewski, T., Iwata, T., & Thompson, M. J. (2026). ESG integration in multi-asset portfolios : the trade-off between sustainability and factor stability. The Journal of Portfolio Management. https://doi.org/10.3905/jpm.2026.1.827
• Iwata, T., Orpiszewski, T., & Thompson, M. J. (2026). Betting against ESG sinners : evidence from short selling around the world. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 49(101152). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2026.101152
• Orpiszewski, T., Thompson, M. J., & Archer-Svoboda, L. (2025). Geographic diversification, proximity bias and performance of Swiss real estate funds. Journal of European Real Estate Research, 18(3), 441–462. https://doi.org/10.1108/jerer-11-2024-0081
• Orpiszewski, T., & Thompson, M. (2025). Beyond borders : asset price reaction to ESG incidents at home and abroad. International Review of Financial Analysis, 104, Part A(104246). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2025.104246
• Kaya, O., & Orpiszewski, T. (2025). Determinants of impact investments : evidence from portfolio-level data. Journal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting, 6(100018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josfa.2025.100018
• Orpiszewski, T., Thompson, M. J., & Schwendner, P. (2024). The stock and option market response to negative ESG news. The International Journal of Accounting, 60(4), 2440002. https://doi.org/10.1142/S109440602440002X

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Orpiszewski, T., Thompson, M. J., & Archer-Svoboda, L. (2025, July 3). Geographic diversification, proximity bias, and performance of Swiss real estate funds. 31st Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Athen, Greece, 2-5 July 2025.
• Orpiszewski, T., Archer-Svoboda, L., Thompson, M. J., Lunsford, D., & Croci, C. (2025, July 2). Swiss real estate funds and climate-related flood exposure : is diversification the key? 31st Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Athen, Greece, 2-5 July 2025.
• Archer-Svoboda, L., Orpiszewski, T., & Thompson, M. (2025, July 2). Property energy efficiency and financial performance : evidence from Swiss real estate fund portfolios. 31st Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Athens, Greece, 2-5 July 2025.

Other publications

• Orpiszewski, T., Thompson, M., & Borrtynski, M. (2025, July 2). Integrating ESG controversies into long-short strategies for US and European equities and corporate bonds. 3rd Conference on Sustainable Banking & Finance, Naples, Italy, 1-2 July 2025.
• Thompson, M. J., Orpiszewski, T., & Iwata, T. (2024, June 2). Betting against ESG sinners : evidence from short-selling around the world. 16th Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Research Conference, Los Angeles, USA, 2-5 June 2024.
• Posth, J.-A., Schwendner, P., Laube, P., & Orpiszewski, T. (2024). Bio-value-at-risk : a concept to assessing the implications of biodiversity risks on portfolio management using geospatial analysis. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4784271
• Orpiszewski, T., Thompson, M. J., & Schwendner, P. (2023). The stock and option market response to negative ESG news. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4478825
• Hadjikyriakou, P., Orpiszewski, T., & Posth, J.-A. (2020). Climate indices for listed equity : comparing different methods to minimise climate risk exposure. In FINANCING THE LOW-CARBON ECONOMY : Instruments, Barriers and Recommendations (pp. 20–23). Swiss Sustainable Finance. https://www.sustainablefinance.ch/upload/cms/user/2020_11_19_Financing_the_Low_Carbon_Economy_EN_full_report_final.pdf

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Posth, J.-A., Schwendner, P., Laube, P., & Orpiszewski, T. (2026, March 10). Bio-value-at-risk : a scenario-based concept to assessing the implications of biodiversity risks on financial portfolio management using geospatial analysis [Conference presentation]. https://doi.org/10.5194/wbf2026-75
• Götz, M., Itten, R., Orpiszewski, T., Hauser, L., & Laube, P. (2023, September). Life cycle approaches for biodiversity impacts of mining and resource extraction : combining remote sensing and life cycle assessment. World Resources Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-6 September 2023.
• Thompson, M. J., Orpiszewski, T., Laube, P., & Kaya, O. (2022). TECH4SDG : guiding Swiss asset managers towards high-impact SMEs. SSF/ZHAW Novel Data Solutions: Big Data and AI for Sustainable Investing - from Biodiversity Risks to Sustainable Gold, Zurich, Switzerland, 2 November 2022.
• Orpiszewski, T., Schwendner, P., & Thompson, M. J. (2022). How do stocks react to negative ESG incidents? SSF/ZHAW Novel Data Solutions: Big Data and AI for Sustainable Investing - from Biodiversity Risks to Sustainable Gold, Zurich, Switzerland, 2 November 2022.

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