Dr. Sebastian Lins

  • Kaiserstr. 89
    76133 Karlsruhe

Me, in a nutshell

I’m a postdoctoral researcher (Akademischer Rat) and lecturer at the research group Critical Information Infrastructures but also a dedicated father and husband. I work on research challenges concerned with designing, using, and assessing secure and trustworthy information systems. My research accounts for the multifaceted use of information systems and how they transform organizations and shape individuals’ behavior. I particularly focus on information systems and platforms that build on Internet-based and emerging technologies.

CV

Let me highlight some of my passions

Doing Research
  • My research focuses on designing, using, and assessing trustworthy, sociotechnical systems with auspicious value propositions
  • Main areas of work:
    • Achieving and signalling trust
    • Secure usage and design of systems
    • Emerging technologies, like Fog Computing, AI, distributed ledger technology
  • I received the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award for my doctoral thesis
  • Held a visiting professorship in the winter semester 2023/2024, being a substitute for the chair ‘Information Systems and Systems Development’ (W3) at the University of Kassel
Working on Projects
  • Operational lead of the projects AUDITOR (www.auditor-cert.de) and DIRECTIONS (www.directions-cert.de), developing novel data protection certifications funded by the German ministries
  • Co-investigator for the project “Accountable Artificial Intelligence-based Systems” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Passionate Teaching
  • Fortunate to supervise a team of phd students
  • Teaching bachelor and master lectures and seminars @ KIT and KIT HECTOR School
  • Acquired the university didactics certification from Baden-Wuerttemberg
Supporting the Community
  • Being reviewer for leading journals (e.g., European Journal of Information Systems; Information Systems Journal; Business & Information Systems Engineering) and conferences (e.g., International Conference on Information Systems)
  • Associate editor for the International Conference on Information Systems, European Conference on Information Systems, and Workshop on Information Security and Privacy
  • Taking part in diverse committees, including the working group Gaia-X Compliance, sector committee data protection of the German Accreditation Body, and expert group of the project eduCheck Digital
Selected Publications
  • Lins, S.; Greulich, M.; Löbbers, J.; Benlian, A.; Sunyaev, A. (2024). “Why So Skeptical? Investigating the Emergence and Consequences of Consumer Skepticism toward Web Seals”, In: Information & Management (forthcoming). doi: 10.1016/j.im.2024.103920
  • Greulich, M; Lins, S.; Pienta, D.; Thatcher, J. B.; Sunyaev, A (2024). Exploring Contrasting Effects of Trust in Organizational Security Practices and Protective Structures on Employees’ Security-Related Precaution Taking. In:  Information Systems Research (ISR), forthcoming. doi:10.1287/isre.2021.0528
  • Adam, M; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A.; Benlian, A. (2023).The Contingent Effects of IS Certifications on the Trustworthiness of Websites. In: Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), forthcoming, doi: 10.17705/1jais.00836
  • Lins, S.; Becker, J-M; Lyytinen, K.; Sunyaev, A. (2023). A Design Theory for Certification Presentations. In: ACM SIGMIS Database 54 (3), doi: 10.1145/3614178.3614183
  • Thiebes, S.; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2021). Trustworthy artificial intelligence. Electronic Markets 31 (2), doi:10.1007/s12525-020-00441-4
  • Lins, S.; Pandl, K.; Teigeler, H.; Thiebes, S.; Bayer, C.; Sunyaev, A. (2021). Artificial Intelligence as a Service – Classification and Research Directions. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 63, 441–456. doi:10.1007/s12599-021-00708-w
  • Kannengießer, N.; Lins, S.; Sander, C.; Winter, K.; Frey, H.; Sunyaev, A. (2021). Challenges and Common Solutions in Smart Contract Development. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 48 (11), 4291–4318. doi:10.1109/TSE.2021.3116808
  • Kannengießer, N., Lins, S., Dehling, T., & Sunyaev, A. (2020). Trade-Offs between Distributed Ledger Technology Characteristics. ACM Computing Surveys, 53 (2), Art. Nr.: 42. doi:10.1145/3379463
  • Lins, S.; Kromat, T.; Löbbers, J.; Benlian, A.; Sunyaev, A. (2020). Why Don’t You Join In? A Typology of Information System Certification Adopters. Decision Sciences 53 (3), 452–485. doi:10.1111/deci.12488
  • Lins, S., Schneider, S., & Sunyaev, A. (2018). Trust is Good, Control is Better: Creating Secure Clouds by Continuous Auditing. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 6 (3), p. 890 - 903. doi: 10.1109/TCC.2016.2522411
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