Ozan Kuru is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community at the National University of Singapore. He obtained BA degree in Psychology at Koc University (2012), Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Michigan (2018) and worked as the Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania (2018-2020). His research examines individuals� engagement with digital technology and information about politics, health and science in a cross-national context. He received grants from Singapore Ministry of Education, Time-Sharing Experiments in Social Sciences (NSF) in the U.S., Facebook Research, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. He published in journals such as Journal of Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, Harvard Misinformation Review, American Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Press\Politics, and PlosONE. He wrote op-ed pieces in English and Turkish in the USA, Turkey, and India in outlets such as the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Diken and ThePrint. He worked in committees including the False Accusations Against Surveys Ad Hoc Committee (2017-19) and the Student Paper Award Committee (2023) of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.