Dr. Jonas Schwaab

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Working Experience:

•    October 2024 - March 2025
      Decision Analytics utilizing Causal Models and Multiobjective Optimization (DEMO),      University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
      (Research Associate)

•    October 2023 - ongoing
      Extremes and Natural Hazards of Alpine Regions Research Centre (CERC) at the
      WSL-Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) in Davos, Switzerland. 
      (Senior researcher)

•    March 2023 - ongoing
      Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS) ETH Zürich
      (Senior researcher)

•    December 2017 - ongoing
      Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Land-Climate Dynamics (link), ETH Zürich
      (PostDoc & Senior Scientist)

•    October 2015 - October 2016
      COINlab (link) and Beacon Center (link), Michigan State University
      (Research Associate)

 
Education:

•    October 2020 – March 2022:
      EPFL Certificate of Open Studies: Applied data science - Machine learning
      (postgraduate course). EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

•    July 2013 – September 2017:
      PhD candidate at ETH Zürich, Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development.
      Thesis: Using Multi-Objective Optimization for Improving the Sustainability of
      Urban Development

•    April 2013 – March 2015:
      Diploma in Advanced Studies in Applied Statistics (postgraduate course), ETH Zürich,
      Switzerland.

•    October 2006 – September 2012:
      Diploma in Geoecology (equivalent to MSc in environmental sciences), Karlsruhe
      Institute for Technology (KIT), Germany.

Publications (peer-reviewed)

Schwaab, J., M. Hauser, R.D. Lamboll, L. Beusch, L. Gudmundsson, Y. Quilcaille, Q. Lejeune, S. Schöngart, C.-F. Schleussner, S. Nath, J. Rogelj, Z. Nicholls, and S.I. Seneviratne (2024), Spatially resolved emulated annual temperature projections for overshoot pathways. Scientific Data, 11(1): p. 1262. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-04122-1

Jäger, F., Schwaab, J., Y. Quilcaille, M. Windisch, J. Doelman, S. Frank, M. Gusti, P. Havlik, F. Humpenöder, A. Lessa Derci Augustynczik, C. Müller, K.B. Narayan, R.S. Padrón, A. Popp, D. van Vuuren, M. Wögerer, and S.I. Seneviratne (2024), Fire Weather Compromises Forestation-reliant Climate Mitigation Pathways. EGUsphere, p. 1-25. https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/15/1055/2024/

Koopmans, M., Schwaab, J., Vicedo-Cabrera, A.M., and E.L. Davin (2024), Mapping heat-related risks in Swiss cities under different urban tree scenarios. City and Environment Interactions. 24: p. 100175. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590252024000357

Liu, L., Ciais, P. , Wu, M., Padrón, R.S., Friedlingstein, P., Schwaab, J., Gudmundsson, L., and Seneviratne, S.I., Increasingly negative tropical water–interannual CO2 growth rate coupling. Nature, 2023. 618(7966): p. 755-760. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06056-x

Nath, S., Gudmundsson,  L., Schwaab, J., Duveiller, G., S.J. De Hertog, S. Guo, F. Havermann, F. Luo, I. Manola, J. Pongratz, S.I. Seneviratne, C.F. Schleussner, W. Thiery, and Q. Lejeune, TIMBER v0.1: a conceptual framework for emulating temperature responses to tree cover change. Geosci. Model Dev., 2023. 16(14): p. 4283-4313. https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/16/4283/2023/

Spielhofer, R., Schwaab, J., and A. Grêt-Regamey, How spatial policies can leverage energy transitions − Finding Pareto-optimal solutions for wind turbine locations with evolutionary multi-objective optimization. Environmental Science & Policy, 2023. 142: p. 220-232. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901123000497

Schwaab, J. (2022). Sprawl or compactness? How urban form influences urban surface temperatures in Europe. City and Environment Interactions, 16, 100091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cacint.2022.100091

Mussetti, G., Davin, E. L., Schwaab, J., Acero, J. A., Ivanchev, J., Singh, V. K., Jin, L., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2022). Do Electric Vehicles Mitigate Urban Heat? The Case of a Tropical City [Brief Research Report]. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.810342

Schwaab, J., Meier, R., Bürgi, C., Mussetti, G., Seneviratne, S. I. & Davin, E. L. (2021). The Role of Urban Trees in Reducing Land Surface Temperatures in European Cities. Nature Communications. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26768-w

Meier, R., Schwaab, J., Seneviratne, S. I., Sprenger, M., Lewis, E. & Davin, E. L. (2021). Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe. Nature Geoscience, 14, 473-478. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00773-6

Schwaab, J., Davin, E.L., Bebi, P., Waser, L., Duguay-Tetzlaff, A., Haeni, M., Meier, R. (2020) Increasing the broad-leaved tree fraction in European forests mitigates hot temperature extremes. Scientific reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71055-1

Drobnik, T., Schwaab, J., Grêt-Regamey, A.,. (2020). Moving towards integrating soil into spatial planning: No net loss of soil-based ecosystem services. Journal of Environmental Management.

Meier, R., Davin, E., Swenson, S.C., Lawrence, D.M., Schwaab, J. (2019): Biomass heat storage dampens diurnal temperature variations in forests. Environmental Research Letters.

Schwaab, J. Lautenbach, S., Braun-Dubler, N., Gmünder, M., Grêt-Regamey, A., van Strien, M.J. (2019). The difficulty of steering settlement development to reduce the loss of ecosystem services: an exploration of different development scenarios in Switzerland using spatially explicit land-use models. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.

Schwaab, J., Deb, K., Goodman, E., Kool, S., Lautenbach, S., Ryffel, A., van Strien, M. & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2018). Using multi-objective optimization to secure fertile soils across municipalities. Applied Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.06.001

Schwaab, J., Deb, K., Goodman, E., Lautenbach, S., van Strien, M. & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2017). Improving the performance of genetic algorithms for land-use allocation problems. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2017.1419249

Schwaab, J., Deb, K., Goodman, E., Lautenbach, S., van Strien, M. & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2017). How to choose the right planning horizon? Using multi-objective optimization to support urban planning. 22nd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 3 to 8 December 2017. https://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2017/F1/schwaab.pdf

Schwaab, J., Deb, K., Goodman, E., Lautenbach, S., van Strien, M. & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2017). Reducing the loss of agricultural productivity due to compact urban development in municipalities of Switzerland. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 65, 162-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2017.06.005

Schwaab, J., Deb, K., Goodman, E., Lautenbach, S., van Strien, M. & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2017). Short- vs. long-term urban planning using multi-objective optimization. In Proceedings of GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference), Berlin, Germany, July 15-19, 2017.

Schwaab, J., Bavay, M., Davin, E., Hagedorn, F., Hüsler, F., Lehning, M., Schneebeli, M., Thürig, E. & Bebi, P. (2015). Carbon storage versus albedo change: radiative forcing of forest expansion in temperate mountainous regions of Switzerland. Biogeosciences, 12, 467-487. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-467-2015