Somara Gantenbein
Somara Gantenbein
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Institute of Natural Resource Sciences
Grüentalstrasse 14
8820 Wädenswil
Work at ZHAW
Position
Research Associate Research Group for Sustainability Communication and Environmental Education
Experience
- Behavioral Designer & Strategist
Self-employed
2024 - today - Research Associate
FHNW / Institute for Market Supply and Consumer Decision-Making
2023 - 2024 - Project Leader Sustainability
University of Zurich
2020 - 2022 - Project Staff
Risk Dialogue Foundation
2019 - 2019 - Project Leader
IPU Schweiz – Association for Environmental Psychology
2018 - 2019
Education and Continuing education
Education
Master of Science / Social, Organizational, and Business Psychology
University of Zurich / University of Copenhagen
2015 - 2017
Continuing Education
Leading Sustainability: High Impact Leadership
University of Cambridge
2024
Network
Membership of networks
- IPU Schweiz – Association for Environmental Psychology
- Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists
Social media
Projects
- Impact Navigator / Project leader / ongoing
- Whispering Waters – Experiencing Zurich’s Drinking Water in a New Way / Project leader / ongoing
- Augmented Ecospheres / Team member / ongoing
- Green Betty – Making sustainability visible on the plate / Team member / completed
Publications
Other publications
Stucki, M., Bolliger, C., Minder, N., Vorburger, R., Gantenbein, S., Bättig, P., & Koch, D. (2026). Green Betty – Nachhaltigkeit auf dem Teller sichtbar machen. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- Wozniak, T., Stieger, M., Griesser, S., Gantenbein, S., & Schaffner, D. (2024). Encouraging Sustainable Packaging Choices: The Impact of Nudging on Online Shoppers’ Decision for Reusable Packaging. Proceedings of the European Marketing Academy, 52nd, (119782).
- Stemmler, T. et al. (2024). Sichere und effiziente S-Pedelec-Infrastruktur S-ESPIN. Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr (BMDV).
- Reimann, K., Warland, L., Behringer, J., Gantenbein, S., Creutzburg, L., & Hilty, L. (2023). Universität Zürich: Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2021/2022. Universitätsleitung der Universität Zürich.
- Warland, L., Hohler, D., Gantenbein, S., Nava, L., Parlow, S., & Hilty, L. (2021). Universität Zürich: Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2019/2020. Universitätsleitung der Universität Zürich.
- Holenstein, M., Beuttler, C., Köng, A. L., & Gantenbein, S. (2020). Public Deliberation zu Klimarisiken und Negativen Emissionen. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Partizipation. In Partizipation für alle und alles? Fallstricke, Grenzen und Möglichkeiten (pp. 73-93). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.