Faculty Profile

Arthur Lupia is the Gerald R Ford Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. His research clarifies how people communicate and build in complex or political environments. From 2024-2025, he served as the University of Michigan’s Interim Vice President for Research. From 2018-2022, Lupia was an Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation, leading its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. From 2019-2022, he co-chaired the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy Subcommittee on Open Science. Lupia is a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust and an Advisory Board member for NASEM’s Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences. His center-scale scientific infrastructure achievements include co-founding TESS (Time-Shared Experiments for the Social Sciences), serving as Principal Investigator for the American National Election Studies co-founding EITM (the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models summer institutes), and serving as the first Chairman of the Board for the Center for Open Science. Lupia has received the NASEM William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research, Guggenheim and Carnegie Fellowships and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.