Biography
Christina Bremer is a Research Associate in sustainable research practices (computational science) in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit and a member of the Lannelongue group. She is working on the Green Algorithms Initiative, a project that focuses on quantifying and reducing the environmental impacts of computational science. Before moving to Cambridge, she completed her PhD and first postdoc in the Socio-Digital Sustainability group at Lancaster University. Reflecting her background in human-computer interaction (HCI), her PhD research explored the energy-saving potential of digital behaviour change and efficiency interventions, taking into account technical factors, user behaviour and rebound effects. After her PhD, Christina stayed in Lancaster to work on Net0Insights, a multidisciplinary project that uses data science tools to reduce commercial energy demand. Initially, she received a BSc (Hons) Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh and an MSSc Human-Computer Interaction from Uppsala University.
Research
My research is situated at the intersection of society, digital technologies and environmental sustainability, spanning the fields of sustainable computing and sustainable human-computer interaction (HCI). Its aims are to limit the environmental impacts of computing technology and use computing to facilitate pro-environmental behaviours.
Publications
Christina Bremer, Harshit Gujral, Michelle Lin, Lily Hinkers, Christoph Becker, and Vlad C. Coroamă. 2023. How viable are energy savings in smart homes? A call to embrace rebound effects in sustainable HCI. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies 1, 1 (2023), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3608115
Christina Bremer, George Kamiya, Pernilla Bergmark, Vlad C. Coroamă, Eric Masanet, and Reid Lifset. 2023. Assessing energy and climate effects of digitalization: Methodological challenges and key recommendations. nDEE Framing Paper Series (2023).
Christina Bremer, Bran Knowles, and Adrian Friday. 2022. Have We Taken On Too Much?: A Critical Review of the Sustainable HCI Landscape. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517609
Christina Bremer, Bran Knowles, and Adrian Friday. 2025. Of Ironies and Agency: Energy Professionals' Views on Digital Interventions and Their Users. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713754
Eleonora Mencarini, Valentina Nisi, Christina Bremer, Chiara Leonardi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Jen Liu, and Robert Soden. Imagining Sustainable Futures: Expanding the Discussion on Sustainable HCI. Interactions 31, 2 (2024), 39–43. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643493
