Dr. Tomasz Orpiszewski

Projects

• Assessing Climate Risks for Real Estate and Infrastructure Portfolios / Project leader / ongoing
• Digitising Environmental Impacts using Geospatial Analytics / Team member / 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
• 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
• Employing Natural Language Processing to identify inconsistencies in companies’ non-financial communication / Project leader / completed
• Tech4SDG – Guiding Swiss Asset Managers towards High-Impact SMEs / Co-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

• Orpiszewski, Tomasz; Thompson, Mark,

  2025.

  Beyond borders : asset price reaction to ESG incidents at home and abroad.

  International Review of Financial Analysis.

  104, Part A(104246).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2025.104246

• Kaya, Orcun; Orpiszewski, Tomasz,

  2025.

  Determinants of impact investments : evidence from portfolio-level data.

  Journal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting.

  6(100018).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josfa.2025.100018

• Orpiszewski, Tomasz; Thompson, Mark James; Schwendner, Peter,

  2024.

  The stock and option market response to negative ESG news.

  The International Journal of Accounting.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/S109440602440002X

• Thompson, Mark James; Orpiszewski, Tomasz; Iwata, Tsuyoshi,

  2024.

  Betting against ESG sinners : evidence from short-selling around the world[paper].

  In:

  16th Alliance For Research On Corporate Sustainability Annual Research Conference, Los Angeles, USA, 2-5 June 2024.

• Posth, Jan-Alexander; Schwendner, Peter; Laube, Patrick; Orpiszewski, Tomasz,

  2024.

  Bio-value-at-risk : a concept to assessing the implications of biodiversity risks on portfolio management using geospatial analysis.

  SSRN.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4784271

• Orpiszewski, Tomasz; Thompson, Mark James; Schwendner, Peter,

  2023.

  The stock and option market response to negative ESG news.

  SSRN.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4478825

• Hadjikyriakou, Phanos; Orpiszewski, Tomasz; Posth, Jan-Alexander,

  2020.

  Climate indices for listed equity : comparing different methods to minimise climate risk exposure.

  In:

  FINANCING THE LOW-CARBON ECONOMY : Instruments, Barriers and Recommendations.

  Zürich:

  Swiss Sustainable Finance.

  pp. 20-23.

  Available from: https://www.sustainablefinance.ch/upload/cms/user/2020_11_19_Financing_the_Low_Carbon_Economy_EN_full_report_final.pdf

• Götz, Michael; Itten, René; Orpiszewski, Tomasz; Hauser, Leon; Laube, Patrick,

  2023.

  Life cycle approaches for biodiversity impacts of mining and resource extraction : combining remote sensing and life cycle assessment.

  In:

  World Resources Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-6 September 2023.

• Orpiszewski, Tomasz; Schwendner, Peter; Thompson, Mark James,

  2022.

  How do stocks react to negative ESG incidents?.

  In:

  SSF/ZHAW Novel Data Solutions: Big Data and AI for Sustainable Investing - from Biodiversity Risks to Sustainable Gold, Zurich, Switzerland, 2 November 2022.

• Thompson, Mark James; Orpiszewski, Tomasz; Laube, Patrick; Kaya, Orcun,

  2022.

  TECH4SDG : guiding Swiss asset managers towards high-impact SMEs.

  In:

  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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