Dr. phil. Benjamin Ambühl
Dr. phil. Benjamin Ambühl
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Theaterstrasse 17
8400 Winterthur
Arbeit an der ZHAW
Tätigkeit
Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte
behaviour change, psychological ownership, habit, human-technology interaction, cybersecurity, sustainability, psychology of the commons, organizational change, community-based participatory action research (CBPAR)
Lehrtätigkeit in der Weiterbildung
Berufserfahrung
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Dozent
Universität Bern
08 / 2022 - 01 / 2023 - Doktorand
Eawag / Universität Bern
07 / 2018 - 07 / 2022 - Wissenschaftlicher Assistent
Eawag
01 / 2018 - 06 / 2018
Aus- und Weiterbildung
Ausbildung
- System Thinking (Weiterbildung)
MIT, USA
09 / 2022 - 12 / 2022 - Dr. phil.
Universität Bern, Schweiz
07 / 2018 - 07 / 2022 - Fortgeschrittene Quantitative Methoden (Summer School)
Universität Oxford, UK
07 / 2019 - 08 / 2019 - M.Sc.
Universität Bern, Schweiz
02 / 2017 - 06 / 2018
Netzwerk
Mitglied in Netzwerken
- Cyber Resilience Network For The Canton Of Zurich (CYRENzh)
- Digital Society Initiative (DSI)
- EHPS@UN committee
ORCID digital identifier
Social Media
Projekte
- Cyber Resilience Network für den Kanton Zürich / Teammitglied / laufend
- Cybersicherheits Awareness-Messung @ ZHAW / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- TikTok Datenschutzverhalten von Schweizer Jugendlichen / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
Publikationen
Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed
- Geppert, T. et al. (2026) 'CYRENZH Cybersecurity Clinic : Konzept und Erkenntnisse', HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 63(2), pp. 425–439. doi: 10.1365/s40702-026-01250-7.
- Ebert, N. et al. (2025) 'Learning from safety science : designing incident reporting systems in cybersecurity', Journal of Cybersecurity, 11(1), p. tyaf019. doi: 10.1093/cybsec/tyaf019.
- Schaltegger, T. et al. (2025) 'Human behavior in cybersecurity : an opportunity for risk research', Journal of Risk Research, 28(8), pp. 843–854. doi: 10.1080/13669877.2025.2539109.
- Zimmermann, V. et al. (2024) 'Human-centered cybersecurity revisited : from enemies to partners', Communications of the ACM, 67(11), pp. 72–81. doi: 10.1145/3665665.
- Andriessen, N. et al. (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). doi: 10.3389/frwa.2023.1130081.
- Ebert, N. et al. (2023) 'Learning from safety science : a way forward for studying cybersecurity incidents in organizations', Computers & Security, 134(103435). doi: 10.1016/j.cose.2023.103435.
- Ambühl, B. et al. (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). doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101818.
- Ambühl, B. and Inauen, J. (2022) 'Contextualized measurement scale adaptation : a 4-step tutorial for health psychology research', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(19), p. 12775. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191912775.
- Ambühl, B. et al. (2021) 'The role of psychological ownership in safe water management : a mixed-methods study in Nepal', Water, 13(5), p. 589. doi: 10.3390/w13050589.
Bücher, peer-reviewed
Ambühl, B. (2022) The role of psychological ownership in community-based piped water supply infrastructure in Nepal and India. Doctoral dissertation. Universität Bern. doi: 10.48549/3748.
Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Schaltegger, T. et al. (2025) 'Understanding the critical role of expert intuition in cyber incident response', in ICIS 2025 Proceedings. Association for Information Systems, p. 5. Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/cyb_security/cyb_security/5.
- Ebert, N. et al. (2024) 'Reflective data sharing on TikTok : encouraging adolescents to engage with privacy settings', in ECIS 2024 Proceedings. Association for Information Systems. Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2024/track24_socialmedia/track24_socialmedia/5/.
- Schaltegger, T. et al. (2024) 'Re-thinking decision-making in cybersecurity : leveraging cognitive heuristics in situations of uncertainty', in Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, pp. 4734–4743. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-30548.