Professor Natasha Merat

IAS Annual Theme: AI:Facts, Fictions, Futures

University of Leeds

Professor Merat is an experimental psychologist and research group leader of the Human Factors and Safety Group, @ITS Leeds.

Her main research interests are in understanding the interaction of road users with new technologies. She applies this interest to studying factors such as driver distraction and driver impairment, and she is an internationally recognised expert in studying the human factors implications of highly automated vehicles project.

Professor Merat is co-chair of the TRB sub-committee on Human Factors in Road Vehicle Automation, task leader of a tri-lateral working group on human factors of automation, leading activities between EU-US-Japan, and has advisory board roles for Veoneer Inc., Highways England, the EC’s H2020 Transport Advisory Group, and Zenzic, which “supports the acceleration of the UK’s emerging connected and autonomous vehicle sector within the global transport ecosystem with resources to enable profitable growth”.