Ruth Elisabeth Appel

Honors & Awards

• PhD Research Fellowship, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (09/2022 - present)
• SAP Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science and Engineering, Stanford University (09/2019 - present)
• Summer Collaborative Research Fellowship, Stanford Impact Labs (06/2022 - 09/2022)
• Student Fellowship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (01/2014 - 06/2019)

Professional Affiliations and Activities

• Member, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) (2019 - Present)

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Ruth Appel combines insights and methods from psychology, political science and computer science to develop and evaluate evidence-based personalized interventions to promote the social good. She is particularly passionate about preventing the spread of misinformation, encouraging political participation, promoting wellbeing and mental health, and addressing ethical challenges related to new technologies. Her current research projects include the 2020 Facebook Election Research Project and an online game to combat vaccine misinformation. She has also written about the ethics and privacy implications of new technologies.

Work Experience

• User Experience Research Intern, Google LLC (6/2020 - 9/2020)

  Location

  San Francisco, CA

• Associate in Research in the Health Division, Duke University, Center for Advanced Hindsight (2/2019 - 6/2019)

  Location

  Durham, NC, USA

• Intern in the Fifth Committee Section, Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations (9/2016 - 12/2016)

  Location

  New York, NY, USA

• Intern in the Strategy Department, Telekom Deutschland GmbH (4/2017 - 6/2017)

  Location

  Bonn, Germany