Patrick Schembri

patrick.schembri [at] uvsq.fr
+33 (0)1 80 28 50 63

Associate Professor in Economics [MCF HC]
Research fellow at the CEARC research centre, since 2016
Deputy Director of the OVSQ (CNRS-UVSQ), UVSQ, since 2023
Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Paris-Saclay, since 2024
Elected member of the Research Commission, University of Paris-Saclay, since 2024

(mise à jour : 05/2025)

Patrick Schembri, PhD in Economics (Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/Academic Tutor: Prof. Emeritus René Passet), Associate Professor in Economics at Versailles University and University of Paris-Saclay. Current member of the Observatory of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, (CNRS-UVSQ), and research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cultures Environments Arctic Representations Climate (CEARC-OVSQ). For his doctoral dissertation, he benefited from a Research Grant of Brown University (Providence, MA, USA). He has been a Postdoctoral fellow within the CRITINC European Research Project, making sustainability operational: CRITIcal Natural Capital and the implications of a strong sustainability criterion, funded by the DG XII of the European Commission and coordinated by the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment, Keele University, U.K. He is member of the GDR AREES « ARctique: Enjeux pour l’Environnement et les Sociétés » (CNRS).

Dr. Schembri published several articles and chapters on environmental policy, innovation & green technology transfers, natural capital assessment, indicators for sustainable development and economic modelling of sustainability. His research activities led him to take part in several national and European research programs concerning sustainable agriculture and water quality, greenhouse gas abatement through fiscal policy in the European Union, the economic and social aspects of environmental issues such as consumers lifestyles and pollutant emissions, the application of monetary and non-monetary procedures of economic valuation for managing sustainable development, the role of electricity grid and hydrogen in the energy transition, the modelling of socio-economic scenarios of climate change.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

My research mainly focuses on the links between economic growth, innovation and environmental changes, as well as the transition to the so-called ecologically-adjusted growth regime and the associated development paths. During the last decade, the financial and economic crises raise the basic questions about the process of economic growth. They have led to rethinking financial and environmental issues, highlighting the question of the financing of investments in sectors that would allow for the generation of new areas of production with specific skills, jobs, and an increase in income. It is then important to explore the policies and actions that should be initiated in order to achieve the required transition. It is also important to take account of the characteristics of the region and of the individual countries, as well as their potential to effectively move towards a green or ecologically adjusted economy based on their own capacities, while embracing the concept of green growth in their policies and programs.

In this context, my research aims at building an analytical framework that integrates the notions of threshold and conflict with respect to sustainability treated here as both a system-oriented and asset-based approach. Sustainability is defined as a heuristic method that questions consistency between several goals through time. With respect to the time dimension of sustainability, we examine the extent to which current investment strategies facilitates or limits the ability of the system to adjust to novelty. This is an important matter which also refers to the notion of adaptation. Adaptation is addressed through how resilience can be treated in macrodynamics with reference to the modeling of economic growth and ecological transition.

CURRENT PROJECTS

PREDICTING THE EVOLUTION AND BIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF THE OCEANIC EXPOSOME IN A CONTEXT OF ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSITION [PREVENT], ANR Project, PPR Océan de solutions, défi 5: 2024-2028. Interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the LSCE (CEA-UVSQ). Partners: Sorbonne University, IRD, INRAE, CNRS. Scientific coordinator of the WP3: Scenarios and impacts on society. I am co-supervising a doctoral contract (36 months) for modeling ocean exposome scenarios on a global scale. I am supervising a postdoctoral contract (12 months) to assess multilevel governance in the context of local regulation of relevant emissions (mercury, lithium and plastics).

PRECIPITATION AEROSOLS RESILIENCE INTERACTION SOCIETE (PARIS): 2024-2025, winner of the Tremplin Call for Projects, GS GCEP, Paris-Saclay University. Partners: LATMOS, CEARC, LSCE, IPSL.
The objective of this research is to measure the impact of socio-economic dynamics on that of IUCs in the Greater Paris metropolis over the last 30 years. The research will contribute to assessing the role of urban forms and planning on the dynamics of densification (population, production, consumption) and their consequences for the trajectories of emissions and precipitation.

PEDAGOGICAL SERIOUS GAME BRUCO: 2023-2024, winner of the OSER Call for Projects, Paris-Saclay University. Scientific coordinator. The development and dissemination of an educational tool for debate on the environmental and social issues of major societal challenges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVEdanRreM4

NEW ENERGY SUSTAINABLE MOBILITIES (NESMO): 2023-2024, winner the Excellence Call for projects, IES Paris-Saclay & MSH Paris-Saclay, University of Paris-Saclay. Scientific coordinator (Social sciences & humanities). Partners: LISV (UVSQ), CEARC (UVSQ), the Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS-CNR, Napoli-Italy) & University of Federico II (Napoli-Italy) https://www.uvsq.fr/3-questions-autour-du-projet-nesmo
PURPOSE – Assessing the PERFORMANCE of a technological solution aimed at responding to certain challenges of the current energy transition. APPROACH – Building a knowledge mediation approach with the perspective of developing collective and collaborative expertise around the notion of performance.

CHANGEMENTS DE COMPORTEMENTS DE MOBILITE POST-COVID DANS UNE PERSPECTIVE DE TRANSITION ECOLOGIQUE, ECONOMIQUE ET SOCIAL: 2022-2023, Projet Emergence MSH Paris-Saclay. Partners: LADYSS UMR 7533 (CNRS, Univ. paris 8, Univ. Paris 1, Univ. Paris 7, Univ. paris 10), GRETTIA (Univ. Gustave Eiffel).

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INSTITUTE – PARIS SACLAY (creation Autumn 2021). This is an Interdisciplinary Object of the Paris-Saclay University. Scientific coordinator for Social sciences & Humanities and Sustainable Development. Institutional coordinators: CNRS, CEA-LITEN, University of Paris-Sud, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, ENS Paris-Saclay, Centrale-Supélec.

ENERGY TRANSITION: 2017-2021. He is the scientific coordinator for the Social sciences and Humanities of the IRS MOMENTOM (MOlecules and Materials for the ENergy of TOMorrow), a Strategic Research Initiative of Paris-Saclay University. The economic evaluation of new materials for renewable energies and new strategies allowing the transition from a carbon-based economy to a sustainable economy. Partners: CNRS, CEA, University of Paris-Sud, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, University of Evry, Ecole Polytechnique, ENS Cachan, ENSTA ParisTech, Centrale-Supélec, Soleil. website

CLIMATE-ECONOMIC MODELING: 2017-2020. IRS ACE-ICSEN (Adaptation to Environmental Changes: a multiscale and transdisciplinary approach), coordinated by the CEARC-OVSQ. The study of adaptation processes of living organisms, natural habitats and human societies to environmental changes. The modelling of climate change mitigation. Partners: University of Paris-Sud (ESE, GEOPS), University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (DAVID, VIMA), LabeX IPSL (LSCE). website

NEWS

Since 2021

2017-2020

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS

Since 2021

Before 2021

CURRENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Graduate level

Undergraduate level

CONGRESS, WORKSHOP AND SEMINAR: ORGANIZATION, SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION

  • 2024 Cycle of Scientific seminars, Travailler dans l’interdisciplinarité: retours d’expérience, IES-PS, the MSH Paris-Saclay & the DIM PAMIR, member of the organization Committee. URL
  • 16 November 2023, organization of the Premières Rencontres de l’IES Paris-Saclay, La transformation des systems énergétiques dans un contexte de crises et d’urgence des grands agendas environnementaux, IES-PS, the MSH Paris-Saclay & the OVSQ, ENS Paris-Saclay, Paris-Saclay University URL
  • 09 November 2023, organization of the scientific seminar, Environnements urbains, Observatory of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-yvelines, Guyancourt.
  • 08-09-10 March 2023, member of the organization committee, Energy at the Crossroads: Accelerating Innovation in the Age of Disruption, Third MOMENTOM International Congress, IES-PS and the MSH Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, Paris-Saclay University URL
  • 02 February 2023, Organization of the conference, Urgence climatique, Sylvestre Huet, IES-PS and ALLCAN, CS, Paris-Saclay University
  • Sustainable Energy Institute – Paris Saclay (creation Autumn 2021). An Interdisciplinary Object of the Paris-Saclay University. Scientific coordination for Social sciences & Humanities and Sustainable Development.
  • 02 Nov. 2020, The MOOC MOMENTOM, The MOMENTOM Project as a Strategic Research Initiatives of paris-Saclay University. New Energies and Society (Scientific Coordinator Challenge 4: Social Sciences and Humanities)
  • 9-13 Dec. 2019, Arctic Week 2019: An International & Transdisciplinary Conference Bridging Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge, (Organizing Committee), The Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Paris
  • 27 Nov. 2019, Itinéraires maritimes et Arctique : contraintes et enjeux logistiques, Séminaire de Recherche en logistique (SRLOG), (Scientific Coordinator & Organizing Committee), OVSQ, Guyancourt.
  • 21 Nov. 2019, Second Workshop MOMENTOM Energies nouvelles et société : les coûts de la transition énergétique, (Scientific Coordinator), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, Cachan.
  • 29 & 30 Nov. 2018, Deuxième atelier thématique de recherche Mobilité : Villes, transports et mobilité durable, (Scientific Committee and local Organizing Committee), OVSQ, Guyancourt.
  • 19 Oct. 2017, First Workshop MOMENTOM Energies nouvelles et société : regards croisés sur la transition énergétique, (Scientific Coordinator), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, Cachan.
CV Patrick Schembri May 2025