Joachim Meyer

Biography

I am Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tel Aviv University, and I am currently chair of the department. I am associate editor for the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making and am on the editorial board of Human Factors. I hold an M.A. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management (1994) from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel (BGU). After completing my Ph.D., I was from 1993 and 1997 a post-doctoral researcher at the Research Center for Work Safety and Human Engineering and taught at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. From 1999 to 2001 I was in Boston where I helped to set up the Age Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Transportation Studies, and I was also affiliated with (2012 Nobel Laureate) Al Roth’s experimental economics group at Harvard Business School. From 1995 to 2012 I was on the faculty of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. I founded the Cognitive Engineering laboratory in the department and led the Human Factors track in the M.Sc. program until 2011. In 2012 I moved to Tel Aviv University where I established an Interacting with Technology (IwiT) laboratory. During the 2014-2015 academic year I was on sabbatical as a visiting professor with the Human Dynamics group at the MIT MediaLab and continued to be a Research Affiliate of the group.

Research Interest

Cognitive engineering, the modeling of human-computer interaction and decision making.