Dr. Benjamin Ambühl Ph.D.

Work at ZHAW

Position

Postdoctoral Researcher

Focus

behaviour change, psychological ownership, habit, human-technology interaction, cybersecurity, sustainability, psychology of the commons, organizational change, community-based participatory action research (CBPAR)

Experience

• Research Associate / Lecturer
  University of Bern
  08 / 2022 - 01 / 2023
• PhD
  Eawag / University of Bern
  07 / 2018 - 07 / 2022
• Graduate Research Assistant
  Eawag
  01 / 2018 - 06 / 2018

Education and Continuing education

Education

• System Thinking (Professional Certificate)
  MIT, USA
  09 / 2022 - 12 / 2022
• Ph.D.
  University of Bern, Switzerland
  07 / 2018 - 07 / 2022
• Advanced Quantitative Methods (Summer School)
  University of Oxford, UK
  07 / 2019 - 08 / 2019
• M.Sc.
  University of Bern, Switzerland
  02 / 2017 - 06 / 2018

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2350-970X

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

• Cyber Resilience Network For The Canton Of Zurich / Team member / laufend
• Cybersecurity Awareness-Measurement @ ZHAW / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
• TikTok privacy behaviour of Swiss young people / Team member / abgeschlossen

Publications

• Zimmermann, Verena; Schöni, Lorin; Schaltegger, Thierry; Ambuehl, Benjamin; Knieps, Melanie; Ebert, Nico,

  2024.

  Human-centered cybersecurity revisited : from enemies to partners.

  Communications of the ACM.

  67(11), pp. 72-81.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3665665

• Ebert, Nico; Schaltegger, Thierry; Ambühl, Benjamin; Schöni, Lorin; Zimmermann, Verena; Knieps, Melanie,

  2023.

  Learning from safety science : a way forward for studying cybersecurity incidents in organizations.

  Computers & Security.

  134(103435).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2023.103435

• Andriessen, Nienke; Appiah-Effah, Eugene; Browne, Shirley Josephine Iyamide; al Jahjah, Rita; Kabika, Joel; Kinobe, Joel Robert; Korir, Naomi; Nishimwe, Pius; Niwagaba, Charles Buregeya; Pradeep, Rohini; Prasad, Prerna; Tembo, James Madalitso; William, Andruga; Ambühl, Benjamin; Strande, Linda,

  2023.

  Quantities and qualities of fecal sludge : experiences from field implementation with a Volaser in 7 countries during a pandemic.

  Frontiers in Water.

  5(1130081).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2023.1130081

• Ambühl, Benjamin; Inauen, Jennifer,

  2022.

  Contextualized measurement scale adaptation : a 4-step tutorial for health psychology research.

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

  19(19), pp. 12775.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912775

• Ambühl, Benjamin; Kunwar, Bal Mukunda; Schertenleib, Ariane; Marks, Sara J.; Inauen, Jennifer,

  2022.

  Can participation promote psychological ownership of a shared resource? : an intervention study of community-based safe water infrastructure.

  Journal of Environmental Psychology.

  81(101818).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101818

• Ambühl, Benjamin; Tomberge, Vica Maria Jelena; Kunwar, Bal Mukunda; Schertenleib, Ariane; Marks, Sara J.; Inauen, Jennifer,

  2021.

  The role of psychological ownership in safe water management : a mixed-methods study in Nepal.

  Water.

  13(5), pp. 589.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/w13050589

• Ambühl, Benjamin,

  2022.

  The role of psychological ownership in community-based piped water supply infrastructure in Nepal and India.

  Bern:

  Universität Bern.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.48549/3748

• Ebert, Nico; Geppert, Tim; Knieps, Melanie; Zarouali, Brahim; Schaltegger, Thierry; Wiedemann, Anna; Ambuehl, Benjamin,

  2024.

  Reflective data sharing on TikTok : encouraging adolescents to engage with privacy settings [paper].

  In:

  ECIS 2024 Proceedings.

  32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Paphos, Cyprus, 13-19 June 2024.

  Association for Information Systems.

  Available from: https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2024/track24_socialmedia/track24_socialmedia/5/

• Schaltegger, Thierry; Ambuehl, Benjamin; Ackermann, Kurt Alexander; Ebert, Nico,

  2024.

  Re-thinking decision-making in cybersecurity : leveraging cognitive heuristics in situations of uncertainty [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

  57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Honolulu, USA, 3-6 January 2024.

  University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

  pp. 4734-4743.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30548

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