Dr. Benjamin Ambühl, Ph.D.
Dr. Benjamin Ambühl, Ph.D.
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Institute of Information Systems
Theaterstrasse 17
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
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
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Social media
Projects
- Cyber Resilience Network For The Canton Of Zurich / Team member / ongoing
- Cybersecurity Awareness-Measurement @ ZHAW / Co-project leader / completed
- TikTok privacy behaviour of Swiss young people / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Books, 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.
Written conference contributions, 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.