BEN LYONS

Ben Lyons is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah and a 2026-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow with the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. He studies the intersection of media, politics, and public understanding of science.

His research has been published in journals such as Science, PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Aging, Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, and Vaccine, and featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, CNN, Der Spiegel, and other outlets. Prior to joining Utah, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter (2017-2019) and the Martin Fishbein Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania (2016-2017). He serves as an Associate Editor for the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. His book Misinformation and the Aging American (2026) is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.