Highlights

Google Scholar: Jérôme Henri Kämpf
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4248-6788
SCOPUS Author ID: 57195592607
Publications list from 12.2023 with DOI
Publications list at Idiap

Reviewer for: Solar Energy, Applied Energy, Buildings Simulation, Journal of Building Performance Simulation, Building and Environment, Sustainable Cities and Societies
Scientific committee member: BS, BSO, CISBAT, CLIMA, eurosun, FICUP, udmv, SBE, DACH+ Energy Informatics

Currently co-supervising the PhD thesis of: Roberto Boghetti (EPFL), Ivan Poon (NUS)
Co-supervised the PhD thesis of: Josep Bunyesc (2013), Diane Perez (2014), Chantal Basurto Dávila (2014), Silvia Coccolo (2017), Yujie Wu (2019), Marco Tognoli (2022)
Jury member of the PhD thesis of: Gianpiero Caruso (2012), Thibaut Vermeulen (2014), Antonio Figueiredo (2016), Raphael Nahon (2017), Sara Torabi (2018), Martin Mosteiro Romero (2020) and Mohammad Rahiminejad (2022)

Software development

Developed the open-source Urban Energy Simulator CitySim and its Graphical User Interface CitySim Pro
Developed the Graphical User Interface Geronimo for RADIANCE

Short Biography

Jerome trained in physics at the University of Lausanne, University of Kent at Canterbury and Imperial College London. He completed his training with a computer science and a postgraduate degree in teacher education, before doing his PhD at EPFL on the modelling and optimisation of urban energy fluxes. Jerome led for six years a research group at EPFL first in Sustainable Urban Development and then in Urban Systems Simulation, further developing the urban energy simulator CitySim that he initiated during his PhD. From 2016 to 2019, he served as professor of Building Energy Efficiency at the HES-SO in Fribourg. Since the end of 2018, Jerome heads the Energy Informatics group at the Idiap Research Institute. He is the author of 100+ publications in the fields of Urban Physics and Daylighting, serves as expert for the Austrian Research Fund, the French Research Fund, and reviewer for leading peer-reviewed journals in his field, and likewise scientific committee member for international conferences. Last but not least, Jerome is the founder of kaemco LLC, a company distributing the developed tools to practitioners.

From a more personal perspective, back in high school, I was fond of three subjects: Physics, Computer Science and English. I believe I had the best Physics teacher ever, so I decided to study Physical Sciences to teach like him. I had the opportunity to do an ERASMUS during my studies, which I chose to be in England. I enjoyed so much my experience abroad that I did my Master thesis' work in Physics in London. Back to Switzerland, I decided to study the second subject I like most: Computer Science. And finally, did a postgraduate in Education to share my passions. I started teaching in a middle school, and was seeing my life straight leading to retirement. I decided to give it some ups and downs beforehand and did a PhD, ended up doing a post-doc, being group leader, creating a company, being professor and senior research scientist.

Education

PhD, On the Modelling and Optimisation of Urban Energy Fluxes, Prof. Dr Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Prof. Dr Darren Robinson, LESO-PB, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2009
Master, Teacher Education in Physics and Computer Science, Haute Ecole Pédagogique Lausanne, 2005
Master, Computer Science, University of Lausanne, 2003
Master, Physics, University of Lausanne, 2001
Bachelor, Physics, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, 1999

Past and actual Research Projects

European Union (EU)

EnerMaps (2020-2022): Open Source Tools to Share, Compare, and Reuse Low-Carbon Energy Data - web platform

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

NewsOnAI (2023-2024): Scientific voice to latest news of AI technology

Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)

IVECT (2020-2023): Impact of greening on the energy balance and thermal comfort of buildings and districts
LUCIDELES (2020-2023): Leveraging User-Centric Intelligent Daylight and Electric Lighting for Energy Saving
Eguzki (2020-2024): A simulation tool for District Heating Networks based on Artificial Intelligence to quickly assess and predict the performance of looped networks
IEA SHC Task 50 (2013-2015): Advanced lighting solutions for retrofitting buildings, SubTask Leader in Methods and Tools
GERONIMO (2009-2012): Computer Design and Visualization Tool for Daylighting Systems

Swiss Federal Office of Environment (FOEN)

ICU (2019-2021): Urban Heat Islands in the City of Fribourg: identification, anticipation, adaptation and valorization stategies

Innouisse (including former CTI)

INNO-MOBILET (2020-2021): Smart Battery Network
INNO-SIMPLYHOME (2019-2020): Improving indoor environment, energy consumption and comfort in existing buildings: integrated systems and smart solutions to promote the indoor air quality
SCCER FEEB&D (2014-2016): Self-Sufficient Lighting Systems and Urban Decentralized Energy Systems - Modelling and Simulation

Competence Center Energy and Mobility (CCEM)

IDEAS4cities (2013-2016): Integration of Decentralized Energy Adaptive Systems for cities
UMEM (2012-2015): Sustainable cities and urban energy systems of the future: Urban Multiscale Energy Modelling

Smart Living Lab (SLL)

BlueCAD (2018-2019): Concept of integration and optimization of advanced networks of smart heat exchange applied to the district of BlueFACTORY in Fribourg
Insolight Smart Luminaire (2017-2018): Demonstration study of an innovative dynamic luminaire

The Ark Foundation

QUAD (2011-2013): Sustainable Districts

Valais Interinstitutional

OpenBEERS (2024-2025): Open-data for Building Energy Efficiency, Renovation and Storage

Teaching experience

Urban Thermodynamics (CIVIL-309) (2022-2023): Invited Lecture on the Introduction to Urban Modelling and Presentation of Real Case Studies, EPFL
F-Energy (2016-2021): Energy Production, Consumption and Management, Master’s in Engineering, HES-SO
3D Dynamics (2016-2018): Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering, HES-SO
Building Thermal Performance (2016-2018): Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering, HES-SO
Renewable Energies (2016-2018): Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering, HES-SO
Energy Management for Sustainable Urban Design (2013-2014): EuroTech PhD summer school – Integrated Approach to Energy Systems, EPFL
Building Physics III and IV (2011-2014): Bachelor’s in Architecture, EPFL
Sustainable Neighbourhoods (2011-2014): Bachelor’s in Architecture, EPFL

Public repositories

Idiap

CitySim: Urban Building Energy and Outdoor Comfort Simulator
pyDHN: Python library for storing, visualizing and managing District Heating Network (DHN) data, running simulations and automate I/O workflow
dhgen: Python module for generating District Heating Networks layouts

Former students

EPFL
Olivier Chavanne: CAD-O
Zetong Liu: UHI_CH_sp
William Oh: Building energy and retrofit scenarios with open-data in Valais

TU Delft
Yuzhen Jin: Dynamic energy simulations based on the 3D BAG 2.0

Presentations

IBPSA Education Webinar: Urban Scale Building Modelling: Exploring CitySim

 

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