Prof. Tobias Schmidt is the head of ETH Zurich's Energy and Technology Policy group and also serves as director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy. In his research, he analyzes the interaction of energy policy and its underlying politics with technological change in the energy sector. His research covers low to high income countries. In his teaching, for which he received ETH Zurich's students' prize Golden Owl, he covers conceptual and methodological courses (such as Policy Analysis) as well as courses related to the governance of the energy transition. He is very engaged in the executive teaching program of the ISTP.

Tobias holds a Bachelor of Science and Dipl. Ing. (MSc equivalent) in electrical engineering (energy focus) from the external pageTechnical University Munich and a PhD from ETH Zurich in management, technology, and economics, working with SusTec.

Tobias is an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (external pageSATW) and serves on the editorial board of external pageEnergy Research and Social Science. He was a visiting researcher at Tokyo Tech, Utrecht University (both in 2011), Stanford (2013/14), and Princeton (2022).

In his leisure he enjoys ski-touring (winter), hiking and catamaran sailing (summer), as well as singing in a choir (all year round). He has been a fan of FC Bayern Muenchen for more than 25 years.