Author: Leonard Michels

We are very happy and honoured to announce that the article "Bidding on a peer-to-peer energy market – A field study", co-authored by current and former members of the Bits to Energy Labs in Zurich and Nuremberg, has been published in Information Systems Research, one of the flagship journals of the...

We are very happy that on June 1st, Sophie Kuhlemann joined our team as a researcher! Sophie studied Spanish and Economics at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg (JMU) from 2014 to 2018. After completing her bachelor's degree, Sophie began her master's studies in International Business...

Our research on the power of real-time feedback to overcome salience bias (“Overcoming Salience Bias: How Real-Time Feedback Fosters Resource Conservation”, Tiefenbeck et al. 2018, Link) has been featured in an essay by Armin Falk published in "Der Tagesspiegel" and his new book "Warum es so schwer ...

We are very happy to finally be back in the lecture hall! This week we started teaching in the summer semester with the very first lecture of our new module for bachelor students "Experimentelle Verhaltensforschung in Data Science" (Experimental Behavioral Research in Data Science). The module is...

Our research on real-time feedback (“Real-time feedback promotes energy conservation in the absence of volunteer selection bias and monetary incentives”, Tiefenbeck et al. 2019, free read-only access: https://rdcu.be/bbKNx) has been featured in the March issue of Psychologie Heute, the leading Germa...

One article analyzing electricity trading behavior in a real-world energy community in Switzerland has been accepted for publication in Information Systems Research, one of the flagship journals of the Information Systems discipline. The study has been conducted in collaboration with ETH Zurich, Uni...

In April, the article "Is It All About Transparency? The Effectiveness and Ethics of a Digital Salience Nudge" co-authored by members of the Bits to Energy Lab Nürnberg and the Schöller Endowed Professorship for Information Systems (Digitalization in Business and Society) was accepted for presentati...

To mark the fifth anniversary of Nature Energy, past and present editors have shared their take on some favourite papers. We are proud that our article “Real-time feedback promotes energy conservation in the absence of volunteer selection bias and monetary incentives” (Tiefenbeck et al. 2019, free r...

Today, Prof. Tiefenbeck gave her first fully virtual lecture of the Data Analytics for Information Systems course. More than 60 students participated in the lecture and participated actively. Due to the very positive but unexpectedly high demand for participation in our course, however, we are un...

On Monday, October 12, Prof. Dr. Verena Tiefenbeck gave a virtual talk at the Energy Resources Engineering (ERE) department of Stanford University. The talk called 'The energy transition beyond simulations and theory: Dealing with the human in the loop in the real world', summarized the results of t...