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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...

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...