Dr. Christian Zipper

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Senior lecturer with team leading
• Academic management MAS/DAS/CAS Integrated Risk Management

Professional development teaching

• DAS Integrated Risk Management
• MAS Integrated Risk Management

Projects

• Resilience and efficiency of smart and sustainable power grids: mesoscopic modelling and stochastic simulation / Deputy project leader / completed
• Analysis of potential for Internet of Things (IoT) to act as an enabler for climate protection and the Energy Strategy 2050 / Project leader / completed
• UNCTAD Strategic Foresight / Team member / completed
• Sustainability assessment of the CO2 methanation value chain: environmental impacts and socio-economic drivers and barriers / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Lobsiger-Kägi, E., López, L., Kuehn, T., Roth, R., Carabias-Hütter, V., & Zipper, C. (2018). Social life cycle assessment : specific approach and case study for Switzerland. Sustainability, 10(12), 4382. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124382

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Mock, R. G., & Zipper, C. (2020). A formal representation of terms and processes for the transition from risk to resilience and sustainability management [Conference paper]. In P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, & E. Zio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference. Research Publishing. https://www.rpsonline.com.sg/proceedings/esrel2020/pdf/3827.pdf
• Mock, R. G., Lopez de Obeso, L., Zipper, C., & Schönenberger, M. (2017). Resilience assessment of internet of things : a case study on smart buildings [Conference paper]. Risk, Reliability and Safety : Innovating Theory and Practice, 2260–2267.
• Mock, R. G., & Zipper, C. (2017). Embedding resilience assessment into risk management [Conference paper]. In M. Cepin & R. Bris (Eds.), Safety and reliability : theory and applications (pp. 1009–1014). Taylor & Francis.

Other publications

• Carabias-Hütter, V., Wettstein, S., Stucki, M., Lopez de Obeso, L., Lobsiger-Kägi, E., Schneider, G., Baier, J., Burri, A., & Zipper, C. (2018). Sustainability assessment of the CO2 methanation value chain : environmental impacts and socio-economic drivers and barriers. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
• Mock, R. G., & Zipper, C. (2017). Risiko : das Ende eines Konzeptes? Sicherheitsforum, 2017(1), 45–47.
• Mock, R. G., & Zipper, C. (2016). Risikomanagement : Herausforderung auch für Profis. Management und Qualität, 45(7-8), 18–19.
• Lopez de Obeso, L., Mock, R. G., & Zipper, C. (2016). Operationalization of an ISO 31000-compliant resilience engineering method, applied to the temperature control in a smart building [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 6th International Disaster and Risk Conference, : IDRC Davos 2016, Extended Abstract Collection, Integrative Risk Management - towards Resilient Cities, 28 August - 01 September, 393–397.

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