Dietram A. Scheufele

After more than 25 years on the faculty at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Dietram A. Scheufele will join Arizona State University as Foundation Professor this upcoming fall. Currently, he is Principal Investigator and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Morgridge Institute for Research  and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center.

Scheufele is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. He is also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Political & Social Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the International Communication Association, and a lifetime associate of the U.S. National Research Council. Stanford University has included Scheufele in their list of the World's Top 2% Scientists every year since 2020.

His teaching has been recognized with the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award at UW, the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Young Faculty Teaching Award, and the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences  Spitzer Excellence in Teaching Award.

Over his career, he has held professorships, fellowships, or visiting appointments at Cornell University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Technische Universität Dresden, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Universität Wien, and the University of Utah.

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 author or co-author of over 300 articles and monographs, and one of the most widely-recognized experts globally across research areas including misinformation, science communication, health communication, and science & technology policy.

Extramural support for Scheufele's research program comes from a wide variety of public and private funders, including the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, John Templeton Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Hopewell Fund, and U.S. Department of Energy.

His consulting portfolio includes work for DeepMind, Porter Novelli, PBS, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and various private philanthropies.

Scheufele currently chairs the Practice and Science of Civic Science Advisory Committee of the Rita Allen Foundation. He also serves on the Kuratorium for the Klaus Tschira Stiftung (Heidelberg, Germany), the Advisory Board of Eviva Partners,  the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's (NASEM) LabX Advisory Board, and AAAS's SciLine Advisory Board. 

In the past, he has served as inaugural co-chair of NASEM's Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication, vice chair of the NASEM consensus study on Communicating Science Effectively,  and as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's and AAAS's National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists (NCLS).