Biography

Prof. Dr. Lukas H. Meyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Graz, Austria, and speaker of the Working Unit Moral and Political Philosophy.

He received his Doctorate from Oxford University and completed his Habilitation at the University of Bremen, was Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University 2000-01, Humboldt Research Fellow at Columbia University 2001-02 and Ass. Professor of Philosophy at the University of Berne 2005-09. Since 2014 Meyer has been the speaker of the interdisciplinary Doctoral Program Climate Change (funded by the Austrian Science Fund), and since 2019 a speaker of the inter-faculty Field of Excellence Climate Change Graz. Meyer served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities 2013-17. As one of the first philosophers, he was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Research Interest

Climate Change