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Laax/Flims, 2023: The team met up with our sister groups of the Bits to Energy Lab Consortium, from ETH Zurich and the University of Bamberg, in Laax/Flims, Switzerland. During the three-day doctoral seminar, we became closer as a team, especially thanks to an exciting river-rafting trip! We thoroug...

Verena Tiefenbeck gave a keynote talk on “Interdisciplinary and impact-driven behavioral research: lessons learned” on July 12 at the Workshop „Experimental Economics for the Environment: Behavioral Change for a Sustainable World” in Bochum, Germany. The workshop was hosted by Prof. Dr. Andreas Lösc...

In May 2023, Leonie Manzke and Laura Schneider joined the Digital Transformation group as researchers/PhD students. Both hold master’s degrees in psychology, Leonie from the Catholic university of Eichstätt, and Laura from the University of Vienna. While Laura is simultaneously training to become...

After three and a half years of unwavering dedication, extensive collaborations resulting in 13 impactful research papers, and invaluable contributions to our research group's academic and administrative landscape, we wholeheartedly congratulate Leonard Michels on successfully defending his PhD diss...

We congratulate Prakhar Mehta, PhD candidate at the group, and his co-authors Dr. Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez and Dr. Danielle Griego at ETH Zurich for their publication in the highly reputed journal of Energy Policy. The key objective of the research was to evaluate how energy policy design can impa...

Leonard Michels has returned from his research exchange at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. Under the guidance of professors Ayelet and Uri Gneezy, he explored the fields of behavioral economics and behavioral marketing. Specifically, Leo worked on a project...

How can data donations be encouraged using digital nudges? In an interdisciplinary and inter-university cooperation for the "DataDonations4SustainableChange" project, Prof. Verena Tiefenbeck and the group will address the question of how awareness and willingness to donate data can be promoted us...

We are delighted to announce that our research on solar energy community configurations has been published open access in the journal Sustainable Cities and Society! In this work, we analyse how a solar energy community's configuration (number of members, share of prosumers and installed PV capac...

On Sept. 16, Verena Tiefenbeck gave a keynote talk at the 11th International Conference on Energy Informatics in Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. In her talk “From Control Loops to Control Groups: Human Behavior and the Energy Transition”, she highlighted that the human factor will play a more and mor...

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...