Dr. Lukas J. Meier BPhil.

Guest scientist

Lukas J. Meier is a fellow at the Harvard Safra Center for Ethics and a visiting scholar at the TU Munich’s Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, with main interests in neurophilosophy, artificial intelligence, medical ethics, and philosophy of mind. Previously, he was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Lukas studied philosophy at the University of Oxford and political science at the University of Göttingen.

His doctoral thesis, completed at the Universities of St Andrews and Heidelberg, linked the topic of brain death to the debate on personal identity.

Lukas teaches in ethics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, metaphysics, and medical ethics.