Curriculum vitae

Dr. Martin K. Patel is professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where he has a chair on Energy Efficiency since September 2013. From 2001 until 2013 he was first assistant professor and later on associate professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where he was co-ordinating a research cluster on advanced material and energy systems.

Martin Patel studied chemical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany and graduated in 1992 (Dipl.-Ing.). From 1993 until mid 2000 he was researcher at the department "Energy Technology and Energy Policy” of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Between 1996 and 1999 he partly worked as visiting researcher at Utrecht University, Department of Science, Technology and Society (STS) and at the Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA) in Rome, Italy. In 1999, he earned his PhD from Utrecht University, NL, for his thesis titled "Closing Carbon Cycles – Carbon Use for Materials in the Context of Resource Efficiency and Climate Change". Between mid 2000 and early 2001 he was with the Department of Energy and Environmental Policy Studies at ECOFYS, Utrecht before he joined Utrecht University.

Martin Patel's research deals with energy conservation and emission reduction potentials from a techno-economic perspective. This typically involves the environmental and the economic assessment of products, processes and services.

Education

• 1999: Ph.D. thesis at Utrecht University, Department of Chemistry Title "Closing Carbon Cycles"
  Carbon Use for Materials in the Context of Resource Efficiency and Climate Change
• 1992: Chemical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• 1976-1985: Fürstenberg-Gymnasium, Donaueschingen, Germany

Working experience

• 2013- : University of Geneva, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Energy Group, F.-A. Forel Institute
• 2001-2013: Utrecht University, Copernicus of Sustainable Development
• 2001-2001: ECOFYS, Department Energy and Environmental Policy Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands
• 1993–2000: Research assistant at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI), Karlsruhe, Germany, Energy Studies Unit
• 1985-1987: Practical experience in the chemical industry, metal processing and the mechanical engineering sector

Selected projects

• 2009-2013: PROSUITE PROspective SUstaInability Assessment of Technologies
• 2008-2009: Second PRO-BIP project Product overview and market projection of emerging bio-based plastics
• 2003-2006: The BREW Project Medium and long-term opportunities and risks of the biotechnological production of bulk chemicals from renewable resources
• 2004-2005: First PRO-BIP project Techno-economic Feasibility of Large-scale Production of Bio-based Polymers in Europe
• 1999-2006: International Network Non-energy use and CO2 emissions (NEU-CO2)
• 1993-2000: IKARUS (Instrumente für Klimagas-Reduktionsstrategien)