Roland Meyer has been DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and Arts at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since July 2024. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre «Virtual Lifeworlds» at the Ruhr University Bochum, where he worked on virtual image archives.
 
Roland Meyer's work as a media and visual culture researcher focuses on networked image cultures. He is particularly interested in the new aesthetic and operational functions of digital images under the conditions of global digital platforms, ubiquitous computing, mobile media and big visual data. He has published on the history and present of facial recognition, practices of image forensics, navigation in augmented spaces, and generative AI and synthetic image worlds.