Dr. Marissa L. Shuffler is the Director of the DIGITAL Lab & Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Clemson University. Dr. Shuffler has been a faculty member in Clemson's Psychology Department since completing her doctorate in 2013 at the University of Central Florida. Her areas of expertise include team, multiteam, and leader training and development with an emphasis on high risk and complex environments (e.g., high stress, interdisciplinary, interprofessional, extreme, virtual/distributed).
Dr. Shuffler has conducted research for government, military, and industry, including the U.S. Army Research Institute, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Center for Army Leadership, and Greenville Health System, with over $23 million in cumulative grant funding as either a Principal or Co-Investigator since 2013. Her work to date includes an edited book on multiteam systems, over 70 scholarly publications, and over 100 presentations.
Dr. Shuffler is a Clemson University School of Health Research (CUSHR) faculty scholar, Clemson Faculty Senator, and a faculty fellow for the Executive Leadership PhD program in Clemson's School of Business. She serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous journals and is a member of multiple editorial boards including Military Psychology, Small Group Research, Group & Organization Management, and the Journal of Business & Psychology.
Dr. Shuffler holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology, Organizational Communication & English from Pfeiffer University (2004), a master's in I/O Psychology from George Mason University (2006) and a doctorate in I/O from the University of Central Florida (2013).
Dr. Shuffler is an applied research scientist, focusing on designing, implementing, and evaluating team, multiteam, and leadership development interventions. Her driving goal is to use science to drive better dynamics in complex workplaces--to help organizations whose employees are responsible for solving grand challenges, exploring new planets, saving and protecting lives, or even transforming healthcare.
Dr. Shuffler specifically focuses on teams operating in high risk and complex environments including healthcare systems, the military, manufacturing, spaceflight, and teams working with technology (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics). She has served as scientific lead on numerous interdisciplinary research collaborations, working with agencies such as NASA, Prisma Health, the National Cancer Institute, and is currently the Clemson Institutional PI on a $6 million cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army Research Institute, investigating team composition and teaming dynamics with Rice University, Florida Tech, Michigan State, the Group for Organizational Effectiveness (gOE), and Aptima.