ETH medals for outstanding doctoral theses
ETH President Joel Mesot has awarded two D-MTEC researchers the prestigious ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses. Congratulations to the award winners!
Dr Nicole Loumeau received the prize for her doctoral thesis entitled “Essays in Economic Geography”, which was supervised by Professor Peter Egger of the Chair of Applied Economics: Innovation and Internationalisation. In her thesis, Dr Loumeau analyses how spatial interactions shape today’s economic geography and highlights mechanisms through which various public policies – for instance, innovation-promoting tax incentives or transport infrastructure investments – affect the spatial distribution of economic activity.
Dr Loumeau is currently continuing her work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Innovation Economics research division at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich.
In her doctoral thesis, Dr Anselma Wörner examines different ways in which information technology can foster sustainability in the real world, both among individual consumers and by integrating renewable energy resources into the energy market. The results of Dr Wörner's research demonstrate that information systems can indeed spur the energy transition and foster sustainability, both on the individual consumer level and on the market level. She wrote her thesis entitled “Fostering Sustainability Using Information Technology: Real-Time Feedback, Incentives, and Smart Markets” under the supervision of Professor Elgar Fleisch of the Chair of Information Management.
Dr Wörner is Co-founder and COO of Exnaton AG.