Lukas J. Meier, Ph.D

Fellow-in-Residence, Harvard University Center for Ethics

Lukas J. Meier, Ph.D. is a Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.  He specializes in artificial intelligence, medical ethics, and neurophilosophy. Before joining the Safra Center, Lukas was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Dr.Meier 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 current research focuses on the interrelation between brain-computer interfaces, machine intelligence, and consciousness. He teaches in ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and medical ethics.