Casper Tigchelaar is a researcher at ECN, working in the policy studies
department. He holds an MSc degree in environmental social science at
the University of Utrecht. In his thesis he discussed barriers and
incentives of frontrunners in sustainable business and suggested ways to
improve governmental policy towards these companies. At ECN he has been
involved in several national and international projects on energy
efficiency in the Built Environment. These include ex-ante and ex-post
evaluation studies, policy analyses and modeling of residential energy
use. Energy related consumer behavior has increasingly become a key
topic in his work.