Fabienne Sierro

Work at ZHAW

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate

www.zhaw.ch/en/sml/institutes-centres/iie/

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Renewable Energy Technologies - Energy Citizenship - Energy Transitions - Participation - Collaboration constellations - Transdisciplinarity - Social Network Analysis - Qualitative and quantitative research methods - Facilitation and moderation of workshops - Stakeholder engagement processes

Professional milestones

2020 Stiftung Risikodialog, Co-Worker
2018-2020 ETH Zurich, Trandisciplinarity Lab, Research Assistant
2018 ETH Zurich, ForDev, Brazil & France, Facilitator

Educational background

2021 - present Doctoral Student, ETH Zürich
2019 M.A. in Environmental Science, University of Geneva
2015 B.A. in International Relations, University of Geneva

Membership of networks

• Schweizer Solar Preis
• Competence Center for Research in Energy, Society and Transition
• WING - Women in geothermal

Projects

• Untergrundnutzung in der Schweiz: Potenziale, Konflikte und Regulierungsbedarf / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• Serious game for participative land use planning in São Tomé and Principe / Team member / Project completed
• Facilitating the start for hydrothermal geothermal projects in Switzerland / Project leader / Project completed
• UNLOCK-PV – Analyse des Potentials von gemeinschaftlich finanzierten PV-Anlagen zur Beschleunigung der Transformation des Schweizer Energiesystems / Deputy project leader / Project completed

Publications

• 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

• Sierro, Fabienne,

  2022.

  It’s not about the money : exploring individual’s motivations to participate in citizen-financed photovoltaics (CiFi PV) [poster].

  In:

  3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS), Manchester, United Kingdom, 20-23 June 2022.

• 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

• Ejderyan, Olivier; Oeri, Fintan; Sierro, Fabienne; Kachhi, Aya,

  2022.

  Green energy or healthy rivers? : tensions in the governance of Swiss hydropower.

  In:

  4th International Conference I.S.Rivers, Lyon, France, 4-8 July 2022.

• Sierro, Fabienne,

  2022.

  Impact-oriented motivations underlying participation in citizen-financed photovoltaics : uncovering the multitude of motives underlying photovoltaic citizen participation initiatives (PV-CPI) adoption.

  In:

  7th NEST Conference, Lyon, France, 5-6 May 2022.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Master Thesis ETH Zurich/University of Geneva: "From Opposition to Collaboration - A Social Network Analysis of the stakeholder engagement process for the Lago Bianco pumped storage hydropower project"

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