Dietram A. Scheufele

Dietram A. Scheufele is an Investigator and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Morgridge Institute for Research, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center. Scheufele’s current research examines how algorithmically curated information environments fundamentally reshape how we all make sense of the world around us. His most recent publications have included work on mis- and disinformation, open science, and the societal impacts of emerging technologies like AI and human brain organoids.

He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and a fellow of the American Academy of Political & Social Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Communication Association, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.

Over the course of his career, he has held professorships, fellowships, or visiting appointments at a number of other universities, including Cornell University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Technische Universität Dresden, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, the Universität Wien, and – most recently – the University of Utah. His consulting portfolio includes work for DeepMind, Porter Novelli, PBS, WHO, the World Bank, and various private philanthropies.

You can find a list of his publications on Google Scholar.