Annual Reports
Schmidt, T. J., Niesen, B., Whyte, C., Thürig, E., Malfait, W., Steiger, R., Panos, E., Hofer, M., Zurbrügg, C., McKenna, R. and Noukakis D. (2026)., Swiss Center of Excellence on Net-Zero Emissions (SCENE): Annual report 2024. Swiss Center of Excellence on Net-Zero Emissions: Villigen. https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/psi/item/psi:84778
Schmidt, T. J., Niesen, B., Whyte, C., Thürig, E., Malfait, W., Steiger, R., Panos, E., Hofer, M., Zurbrügg, C., McKenna, R. and Noukakis D. (2024)., Swiss Center of Excellence on Net-Zero Emissions (SCENE): Annual report 2023. Swiss Center of Excellence on Net-Zero Emissions: Villigen. https://doi.org/10.55402/psi:66609
Journal Publications and Technical Reports
Action Area 1
2026
Huo, J., Stadelmann, G., Burg, V., Subal, L., Jakobs, A., Thürig, E., & Hellweg, S. (2026). Prospective climate change impacts of Swiss forest management and wood utilization strategies by integrating biogenic carbon dynamics. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 226, 108692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108692
2025
Flury, R., Aakala, T., Ruha, L., Kuuluvainen, T., & Furrer, R. (2025). Dominant-feature identification in data from Gaussian processes applied to Finnish forest inventory records. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13253-025-00706-5
Guidi, C., Gosheva-Oney, S., Didion, M., Flury, R., Walthert, L., Zimmermann, S., Oney, B. J., Niklaus, P. A., Thürig, E., Viskari, T., Liski, J., & Hagedorn, F. (2025). Drivers of soil organic carbon from temperate to alpine forests: A model-based analysis of the Swiss forest soil inventory with Yasso20. Biogeosciences, 22(16), 4107–4122. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-4107-2025
König, L. A., Mohren, F., Schelhaas, M.-J., Astigarraga, J., Cienciala, E., Flury, R., Fridman, J., Govaere, L., Lehtonen, A., Muelbert, A. E., Pugh, T. A., Rohner, B., Ruiz-Benito, P., Suvanto, S., Talarczyk, A., Zavala, M. A., Vega, J. M., Staritsky, I., Hengeveld, G., & Nabuurs, G.-J. (2025). Combining national forest inventories reveals distinct role of climate on tree recruitment in European forests. Eological Modelling, 505, 111112 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111112
Moreno-Duborgel, M., Gosheva-Oney, S., González-Domínguez, B., Brühlmann, M., Minich, L. I., Haghipour, N., Flury, R., Guidi, C., Brunmayr, A. S., Abiven, S., Eglinton, T. I., & Hagedorn, F. (2025). Shifting carbon fractions in forest soils offset 14C-based turnover times along a 1700 m elevation gradient. Global Change Biology, 31(7). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70326
Müller, A., Diepers, T., Jakobs, A., Cardellini, G., von der Assen, N., Guinée, J., & Steubing, B. (2025). Time-explicit life cycle assessment: A flexible framework for coherent consideration of temporal dynamics. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-025-02539-3
Tariyal, G., Flury, R., Kouki, J., & Aakala, T. (2025). Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 380(1924), 20230452. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0452
2024
Flury, R., Portier, J., Rohner, B., Baltensweiler, A., Di Bella Meusburger, K., Scherrer, D., Thürig, E. and Stadelmann, G. (2024), Soil and climate-dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests. Ecography, Issue 7. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07174
Malinverno, N., Buschor, S., Vogel, K., Schwarze, F., Stadelmann, G., Thürig, E., Nowack, B., Nyström, G., and Som, C. (2024), Resolving complexity: Material flow analysis of a national wood flow system integrating the versatility of wood. Journal of Industrial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13560
Action Area 2
2025
Bermejo, J. Q., Herranz, J. (2025) A review on electrochemical CO2-to-CH4 conversion for a sustainable energy future: From electrocatalysts to electrolyzers. Journal of Materials Chemistry A . https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/ta/d5ta03854e
Facas, G., Calabrese, G., Schüller, N., Schreiber, D., Zennegg, M., Radoiu, M., Dimopoulos Eggenschwiler, P., Hydrogen production by microwave plasma CH4 pyrolysis: Characterization via optical emission spectroscopy and response surface methodology, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 157 (2025) 150436, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.150436
Grossegger, D., Wyrzykowski, M., Toropovos, N., Lura, P. (2025), Exploring the carbon sequestration of an asphalt base course mixture containing novel cold-bonded biochar-rich lightweight aggregates. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1617/s11527-025-02639-4 [Action Areas 2&3]
Ingwersen, A., Hahn Menacho, A., Pfister, S., Peel, J., Sacchi, R., Moretti, C. (2025) Prospective Life Cycle Assessment of cost-effective pathways for achieving the FuelEU Maritime Regulation targets. Science of the Total Environment 958, 177880 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724080379
Zeyou P., et al., (2025). Tunable synthesis of carbon nanotubes via methane catalytic pyrolysis by adjusting Mo incorporation in Fe/MgO. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 27, 18302-18308. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/cp/d4cp04231j
Ziemiański, P., Cherotich, M., Sadykov, I., Mansour, C., Lunati, I., Ranocchiari, M., Malfait, W. J., Galmarini, S. (2025) Hydrophobic silica gels and aerogels for direct air capture: Hybrid grafting to suppress water uptake and capillary condensation. ACS applied materials & interfaces 17, no. 30: 42954-42968. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.5c04491
Action Area 3
2025
Boiger R., Xi B., Miron G.-D., Bonvin M., Provis J. L., Churakov S. V., & Prasianakis N. I. (2025). Machine learning-accelerated discovery of green cement recipes. Materials and Structures 58, Article 173. https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-025-02684-z
Grossegger D., Hugener M., & Lura P. (2025). Feasibility study of biochar as alternative filler to limestone filler investigated at the asphalt mastic level. Construction and Building Materials 502: 144492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2025.144492
Grossegger D., Wyrzykowski M., Toropovs N., & Lura P. (2025). Exploring the carbon sequestration of an asphalt base course mixture containing novel cold-bonded biochar-rich lightweight aggregates. Materials and Structures 58 (4). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-025-02639-4
Mazzoni F., Binz C., & Losacker S. (2025). What can the bamboo industry learn from timber? Resource mobilization across global innovation systems in the construction sector. Geoforum 165, 104378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104378
2024
Hassan, Z., Raza, S., Shafei, B., Mahoutian, M., Shahverdi, M. (2024), Innovations to improve 3D concrete printing of Portland Cement-steel slag blended mortars. Procedia Structural Integrity. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prostr.2024.09.165
Action Area 4
2025
Brodnicke, L., Kachirayil, F., Gabrielli, P., Sansavini, G., McKenna, R. (2025) Trans-forming decentralized energy systems: Flexible EV charging and its impact across urbanization degrees, Applied Energy, Volume 384, 125303, ISSN 0306-2619, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125303
Kachirayil, F., Huckebrink, D., Bertsch, V., McKenna, R. (2025) Trade-offs between system cost and supply security in municipal energy system design: An analysis considering spatio-temporal disparities in the Value of Lost Load, Applied Energy, Volume 381, 124896, ISSN 0306-2619, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124896
Kachirayil, F., Yamaguchi, Y., Chen, C., McKenna, R. (2025) Estimating demand re-sponse potentials of domestic appliances: Insights from a Japanese survey, Energy, Volume 337, 138421, ISSN 0360-5442, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2025.138421
2024
Domenig, C., Scheller, F., Gunkel, P.A., Hermann, J., Bergaentzlé, C.M., Lopes, M.A.R., Barnes, J., McKenna, R. (2024). Overcoming the landlord–tenant dilemma: A techno-economic assessment of collective self-consumption for European multi-family buildings, Energy Policy, Volume 189, 114120, ISSN 0301-4215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114120
Finke, J., Kachirayil, F., McKenna, R., Bertsch, V. (2024). Modelling to generate near-Pareto-optimal alternatives (MGPA) for the municipal energy transition, Applied Energy, Volume 376, Part A, 124126, ISSN 0306-2619, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124126
Action Area 5
2025
Froemelt, A., Zueger, L., von Kaenel, L., Braun, D., Gruber, W. (2025). Pattern recognition of operational states leading to N2O-emissions in full-scale biological wastewater treatment, Water Research X, 29, 100336 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wroa.2025.100336
Action Area 6
2026
Paolini, J., Cubero-Castan, M., Ouvrard, X. E., Peon, Q., M., Richart, N. (2026). MITSI – Methodology for IT Services Environmental Impact Assessment. https://doi.org/10.5075/epfl.20.500.14299/261022