Christoph is module coordinator and researcher for the “FCL Global: Powering the City” project which investigates decentralized renewable energy including Photovoltaics from a multifaceted technical, socioeconomic, and design perspective. Furthermore, Christoph is lead developer of the Hive tool, an ETH Innovedum funded Rhino Grasshopper plug-in for early-stage energy-integrated building design. His teaching activities include leading the “Computational Methods of Energy and Climate Design” (CompECD) course.

Christoph’s research spans from co-simulation on an urban to building scale, black-box optimization and Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Fitness Landscape Analysis and Hyper-parameter optimization, and physics-informed machine learning applied to the design of integrated building systems.

Prior to his current position, Christoph was a Postdoc at the Chair of Building Physics, Prof. Carmeliet, ETH Zurich, where he also completed his PhD in 2018. Christoph holds an MSc (Dist.) from UCL London in Environmental Design and Engineering, as well as a Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture from the University of Stuttgart. Christoph has worked in industry for complex architectural geometries and advanced manufacturing, as a project engineer and building simulation specialist, and in various architectural design firms.

Research /
FCL Global: Powering the City

Teaching /
Energy and Climate Systems III

Demonstrators /
Hive

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