Fabienne Sierro

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Research Associate at ZHAW
• Doctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich

Focus

Renewable Energy Technologies - Energy Citizenship - Energy Transitions - Sustainability Transitions - Sustainable Subsurface Development - Transdisciplinarity - Mixed methods - Facilitation - Stakeholder Engagement Processes

Teaching

Innovation & Venture LAB III: Facilitation

Experience

• Project member
  Stiftung Risikodialog
  2020 - 2020
• Research Assistant
  ETH Zurich, Transdisciplinarity Lab
  2018 - 2020

Education and Continuing education

Education

• M.A. Environmental Science / Climate & Energy
  University of Geneva
  2016 - 2019
• B.A. International Relations / Economics & History
  University of Geneva
  2012 - 2015

Continuing Education

Facilitation of collaborative work: posture, context, methods
Flow-ing
09 / 2021

Network

Membership of networks

• ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9896-0998

Media presence

Science and politics eounstable: geothermal energy, CO2 storage, raw materials and more: energy and climate change require thoughtful utilisation of the subsurface

Projects

• Untergrundnutzung in der Schweiz: Potenziale, Konflikte und Regulierungsbedarf / Project co-leader / Project completed
• 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,

  2024.

  Material energy citizenship through participation in citizen-financed photovoltaic projects.

  Energy, Sustainability and Society.

  14(1), pp. 33.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-024-00465-0

• Sierro, Fabienne,

  2023.

  (Don’t) call me an energy citizen : investigating motivations in citizen-financed photovoltaic projects from the perspectives of providers and participants [poster].

  In:

  Beyond crisis/Beyond normal: A social science and humanities conference on sustainability, Trondheim, Norway, 27-28 September 2023.

  Trondheim:

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

  Available from: https://www.ntnu.edu/energy2014-2023/society/team-society-conference

• Sierro, Fabienne; Speich, Matthias; Ulli-Beer, Silvia,

  2024.

  Die Schweizer Tiefe Geothermie mitten im Wandel.

  Geothermische Energie.

  33(107), pp. 8-11.

• 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

• Sierro, Fabienne,

  2023.

  More than money : local impact is why individuals participate in citizen-financed photovoltaics.

  In:

  AlpEnForCe Energieforschungsgespräche, Disentis, Switzerland, 25-27 January 2023.

  Available from: https://www.alpenforce.com/events/energieforschungsgespraeche-disentis-2023

• 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.

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