Current Responsibilities
Christian Moretti has been a scientist in the Technology Assessment group (TEA) at the Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis (LEA) since February 2024. His expertise is in prospective Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for policy modeling and decision support. His current research at LEA focuses on alternative fuels in the SWEET refuel.ch project, future sustainable energy solutions for transportation in Africa in the MI-ESYN project, and the Swiss energy system in the SPEED2ZERO project.
In addition to his role at PSI, Christian works at the Climate Policy Lab of the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). At ETH, his current research focuses mainly on modeling energy policies for sector coupling and flexibility in the SWEET PATHFNDR project.
Christian is a lecturer at ETH in the course "Quantitative Policy Analysis and Modeling," covering topics such as cost-benefit analysis, life cycle analysis, multi-criteria analysis, and partial and general equilibrium modeling.
Education and previous activities
Christian holds a master's degree in energy engineering from Politecnico di Milano and a PhD from Utrecht University. Prior to and after his PhD, Christian worked at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.