List of persons who wrote their doctoral thesis at EPFL under the supervision or co-supervision of Prof. Philippe Thalmann
| Name | Title and EPFL doctoral thesis number | Year compl. | |
| 1 | Wasserfallen, Antoine | Du savetier au financier: la famille Borel, de Neuchâtel à San Francisco: le cable car… propriété de banquiers suisses cosmopolites? Pistes pour le financement privé d’infrastructures urbaines publiques (n°2085, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/32561) | 1999 |
| 2 | Bornstein, Nicholas | Three essays on the acceptability of environmental policy in Switzerland (n°3916, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/110261) | 2007 |
| 3 | Gonseth, Camille | Adapting ski area operations to a warmer climate in the Swiss Alps through snowmaking investments and efficiency improvements (n°4139, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/124842) | 2008 |
| 4 | Schaerer, Caroline | Assessing environmental amenities and testing for discrimination in housing markets using hedonic price models (n°4186, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/125890) | 2008 |
| 5 | Salvi, Marco | Assessing airport noise, demand for quietness and land-structure substitution (n°4236, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/128123) | 2008 |
| 6 | Dulguerov, Matthieu | Real estate issues: portfolio diversification, pricing and time-on-market (n°4438, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/136747) | 2009 |
| 7 | Sceia, André | Three steps toward modeling Swiss post-2012 climate policies (n°4626, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/143048) | 2010 |
| 8 | Gainza Carmenates, Ronal | Three economic perspectives on post-2012 global climate policy (n°4932, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/154771) | 2011 |
| 9 | Maire, Pierrick | Étude multidisciplinaire d’un développement durable du sous-sol urbain: aspects socio-économiques, juridiques et de politique urbaine (n°4987, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/162133) | 2011 |
| 10 | Quandt, Alexandra | The political economy of climate policy: Business interest and influence on the Swiss CO2 law (n°5106, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/174799) | 2012 |
| 11 | Matasci, Cecilia | Swiss tourism in the age of climate change — vulnerability, adaptive capacity, and barriers to adaptation (n°5506, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/182641) | 2012 |
| 12 | Menghini, Gianluca | Transferable development rights (TDR) in Switzerland: Simulating a TDR market with agent-based modeling (n°5707, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/185906) | 2013 |
| 13 | Faust, Anne-Kathrin | The economics of water distribution in Switzerland: cost, efficiency and climate change (n°5708, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/185993) | 2013 |
| 14 | Li, Huan-Qing | An integrated strategy for sustainable underground urbanization (n°5869, http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/188099) | 2013 |
| 15 | Silberstein, Virginie | Choix d’un label énergétique par les promoteurs immobiliers en France et en Suisse (n°6103, https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/197521) | 2014 |
| 16 | Kounina, Anna | Water use and quality in Life Cycle Assessment: identifying good practices and developing operational spatial approaches (n°6402, https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/203724) | 2014 |
| 17 | Bélanger, Philippe | Energy efficiency valuation and mortgage’s implied insurance (n°6325, https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/207630) | 2015 |
| 18 | Maire, Sophie | Coupled energy economic model framework for analyzing Swiss electricity markets in changing policy environments (n°7153, https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/222431) | 2016 |
| 19 | Doyle, Michael Robert | Potentialities of the Urban Volume: Mapping underground resource potential and deciphering spatial economies and configurations of multi-level urban spaces (n°7328, https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/223455) One of the two winners of the best thesis award 2017 of the EDAR doctoral program |
2016 |
| 20 | Weilenmann, Barbara | Socio-economic determinants of sprawl: causes and consequences of urban growth in Swiss municipalities (n° 9302, https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/264209) | 2019 |
| 21 | Usui, Takafumi | Essays on adaptation to rare disasters (n° 9308, https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/264965) | 2019 |
| 22 | Thurm, Boris | The diversity of moral preferences: Evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics (n° 9478, https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/270632) | 2019 |