Dr. Alice Aubert

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

Dozentin

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Environmental sciences - society interface
• Participatory decision-making, e.g. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis process
• Behavioral Operations Research, e.g. biases and heuristics in decision-making
• Gamification and serious games for decision-making
• Citizen sciences
• Water quality, agricultural and food systems, sustainability

Lehrtätigkeit

• Research Methods (in MSc ENR)
• Food Systems and Natural Resources (in MSc Circular Economy Management)

Berufserfahrung

• WiMa
  Geography of food group, ZHAW-IUNR, Wädenswil (CH)
  09 / 2022 - heute
• Scientist (SNSF Ambizione Fellow)
  Environmental Social Sciences department, Eawag, Dübendorf (CH)
  03 / 2018 - 05 / 2023
• Post doctoral scientist (Eawag Postdoc Stipendium 2015)
  Environmental Social Sciences department, Eawag, Dübendorf (CH)
  10 / 2015 - 12 / 2017
• Post doctoral scientist
  Institute of Landscape Ecology and Resources Management, Justus Liebig University, Giessen (DE)
  09 / 2014 - 09 / 2015

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Ausbildung

• PhD / environmental sciences, agro-hydrology
  Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes (FR)
  11 / 2010 - 10 / 2013
• Ing. Agricultural Sciences (eq. Master) / Major in natural sciences (water and soil sciences), basis of social sciences (environmental economy, geography, agricultural politics).
  Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes (FR)
  09 / 2006 - 09 / 2010

Weiterbildung

CAS Hochschuldidaktik
PH ZH, Zürich (CH)
04 / 2024

Netzwerk

Mitglied in Netzwerken

• EURO working group on Behavioural OR
• COST Action Shift

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6613-5942

Social Media

ResearchGate

Projekte

• Gesunde und nachhaltige Ernährung – mögliche Hebel für morgen im Schweizer Ernährungssystem / Teammitglied / laufend
• Von Urin zu Dünger: Lokale Nährstoffrückgewinnung in kreislauforientierten Sanitärsystemen / Teammitglied / laufend
• ZirkuLAr, alles klar! / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• Water and Nutrient Circularity as a Service / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Participatory decision-making for food system transformation / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

• Geisser, T. and Aubert, A. (2026) 'Corrigendum to 'Social network analysis to identify actors for participatory food system transformation : learning from two case studies in Switzerland' [J. Rural Stud. 123 (2026) 104071]', Journal of Rural Studies, 124(104161). doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104161.
• Geisser, T. and Aubert, A. (2026) 'Social network analysis to identify actors for participatory food system transformation : learning from two case studies in Switzerland', Journal of Rural Studies, 123(104071). doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104071.
• Buehler, D. et al. (2025) 'Drivers for the adoption of circular water systems at the building level in a high-income context', Water Research X, 29(100416). doi: 10.1016/j.wroa.2025.100416.
• Aubert, A. H. et al. (2025) 'Balancing reality, meaning, and play - the case of a digital game about the Swiss food system : a reflection on Foodscape's design journey and its lessons for future serious games', Gaia, 34(3), pp. 143–149. doi: 10.14512/gaia.34.3.13.
• Aubert, A. H., Scheidegger, A. and Schmid, S. (2023) 'Gamified online surveys : assessing experience with self-determination theory', PLOS ONE, 18(10), p. e0292096. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292096.
• Aubert, A. H. and Lienert, J. (2023) 'Operational research for, with, and by citizens : an overview', European Journal of Operational Research, 316(3), pp. 800–814. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.10.037.
• Aubert, A. H., Schmid, S. and Lienert, J. (2023) 'Can online interfaces enhance learning for public decision-making? : eliciting citizens' preferences for multicriteria decision analysis', European Journal of Operational Research, 314(2), pp. 760–775. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.10.031.

Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed

• Bühler, D. et al. (2025) 'Drivers for the adoption of circular water systems at the building level in a high-income context', in 13th IEES International Conference 'Closed Cycles and the Circular Society – The Power of Ecological Engineering', Reykjavik, Iceland, 16-18 July 2025.
• Aubert, A. et al. (2024) 'Water and Nutrient Circularity as a Service (WaNCaaS) : a feasibility study for new business models to close the water and nutrient cycles in the food industry', in FTAL Conference 2024 – Circular Economy, Lugano, Switzerland, 14-15 November 2024.

Weitere Publikationen

• Aubert, A., Buchmann, F. and Böckler, N. (2026) 'ZirkuLAr : spielerisch Kreislaufwirtschaft in der Landwirtschaft fördern', in Circular Lab Konferenz : Interdisziplinäres Forum zur Zukunft der Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft, St. Gallen, Schweiz, 22. April 2026. Wädenswil: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36496.
• Grau, M. et al. (2026) 'Wasser- und Nährstoffkreisläufe schliessen', Aqua & Gas, 2026(4), pp. 54–57. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36352.

Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts

• Aubert, A. and Jaisli, I. (2025) 'Rethinking livestock future : behavioural insights from value-focused thinking and MCDA', in 34th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO), Leeds, United Kingdom, 22-25 June 2025.
• Aubert, A. and Jaisli, I. (2025) 'Actors' trade-off preferences matter : an illustrative case based on Swiss agricultural policy for the future of livestock production', in 53. Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie (SGA), Bern, Switzerland, 8-9 May 2025.
• Aubert, A. (2024) 'Participatory weighting and decision-making', in 88th LCA Discussion Forum Frontiers in Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment – How can Life Cycle Thinking embrace the Triple Bottom Line?, Wädenswil, Switzerland, 22 November 2024. Available at: https://video.ethz.ch/events/lca/2024/autumn/88th/398d52a5-5451-4162-95c5-83ab8aca7c9e.html.
• Aubert, A. (2024) 'Playing a card game in a workshop to generate decision objectives : pretesting the evaluation', in 33rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO), Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 June - 3 July 2024.
• Aubert, A. H., Mittal, A. and Scholten, L. (2023) 'Game-based approaches for Behavioural Operational Research?', in Workshop of the European Working Group on Behavioural OR (EWG BOR), Delft, The Netherlands, 21-22 September 2023.
• Aubert, A. H. (2023) 'Gamifying online surveys to engage citizens in complex decision-making', in SHiFT COST Action Conference "Reflections on Transformation: Shaping the Future, Transcending Disciplinary Silos and Exploring 'Lived' Knowledge Systems", Graz, Austria, 18-19 September 2023.
• Aubert, A. H. (2023) 'Reflecting on inputs from learning sciences for BOR studies', in Workshop of the European Working Group on Behavioural OR (EWG BOR), Delft, The Netherlands, 21-22 September 2023.

Publikationen vor Tätigkeit an der ZHAW

• Aubert, A. H., Esculier, F., & Lienert, J. (2020). Recommendations for online elicitation of swing weights from citizens in environmental decision-making, Operations Research Perspectives, 7, 100156.
• Aubert, A. H., Medema W. & Wals A. E. J. (2019). Towards a framework for designing and assessing game-based approaches for sustainable water governance, Water MDPI, 11(4), 869-888.
• Aubert, A.H., Bauer, R., Lienert, J. (2018). A review of water-related serious games to specify use in environmental Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Environmental Modelling & Software, 105, 64-78.

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