His research deals with energy savings and emission reduction in industry, the built environment and at the interface between energy supply and energy demand (most notably including energy storage). Together with his group he performs environmental and economic assessments of technologies, processes, products and services as well as evaluations of policy programmes. Next to energy efficiency, bio-based products represent a particular focal area of research. The main research methods applied by the group include techno-economic modelling (simulation), Life Cycle Assessment, economic assessment (micro & macro) and policy analysis. Martin Patel and his group have co-ordinated and contributed to numerous national and international projects commissioned by a variety of organisations including national research funds (e.g. SNF), governmental bodies (e.g. SFOE), the European Commission, international organisations (e.g. UNECE, IEA, UNIDO and IRENA) and companies (e.g. SIG or Nestlé). Martin Patel is member of several large research consortia (most notably SCCER-CREST, SCCER-FEEB&D, SCCER-EIP and SCCER-Storage) and associations (e.g. eceee and swissesco). He is co-responsible for the Energy Track of the Environmental Master Programme (Master universitaire en sciences de l'environnement, MUSE) at University of Geneva where he also has a number of administrative tasks.