Lukas J. Meier

Lukas J. Meier is an Associate at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics and the current Harvard-TAU Exchange Fellow, specialising in artificial intelligence, medical ethics, and neurophilosophy. Previously, he was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Lukas studied philosophy at the University of Oxford and political science at the University of Göttingen. As part of a team developing an algorithm for ethical decision-making in the clinic, he also spent a year at the Technical University of Munich. 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, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and medical ethics.