Rate My Professor Ofir Turel

Ofir Turel is Professor of Information Systems Management and the co-lead of the Information Systems research group in the School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, at the University of Melbourne. He holds a concurrent appointment as Scholar in Residence at the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California. Prior to his current role, Turel served as Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, and held research fellowships in Asia and Europe. His career is marked by contributions to understanding human-technology interactions through interdisciplinary lenses.

Turel's research specializations include the neuroscience and psychology of problematic social media and technology behaviors, decision-making processes in information systems, and the duality of big data in decision quality. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles in leading information systems journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, and Information Systems Journal, as well as prominent psychology and psychiatry outlets including Addiction, Journal of Psychiatric Research, Addiction Biology, NeuroImage, and Appetite. His scholarship has been recognized as placing him in the top 2% of researchers worldwide by a Stanford University study and featured in media such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone. Turel received the L. Donald Shields Excellence in Scholarship and Creativity Award from California State University, Fullerton in 2019 and the Outstanding Associate Editor Award from MIS Quarterly in 2019. He currently serves as Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly since 2023 and has presented public seminars, including on the neuroscience of problematic social media behaviors at the University of Melbourne.