Prof. Dr. Joachim Meyer (Tel Aviv University)

Joachim Meyer is the Celia and Marcos Maus Professor for Data Sciences at the Department of Industrial Engineering. He holds an M.A. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (1994) from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He was a post-doctoral fellow and a researcher at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and was for 17 years on the faculty of the department of   Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he helped to set up the MIT AgeLab. In the 2014-2015 academic year he was a visiting professor at the MIT MediaLab. He is an elected fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, a Senior Member of IEEE, and therecipient of the 2018 Jerome H. Ely Human Factors Award.

He focuses on two lines of research:

A). Privacy as control over information, privacy-related decision models, privacy engineering, managing privacy harms (Daniel Solove model), privacy and internet, and measuring people’s perceptions of online privacy issues

B). Robot interaction, perception of human-robot interface, ethic and trust for autonomous systems, trust in robotics peacekeepers