Invitation to the DiMEN Fellowship Lecture 2025 with Dr. Lukas Meier (held in german)
Monday, October 20, 2025, 13:00, Potsdam Golm, Haus 62 (H-Lab) Room 1.01 or via Zoom

In discussions about the appropriate relationship between physician and patient, four classical models are commonly distinguished: paternalistic, informative, interpretative, and deliberative. With the rise of medical chatbots, an analogous question arises: how should it be determined which model a given patient encounters? This lecture will offer some proposals.

Dr. Lukas J. Meier is a philosopher and ethicist specializing in medical ethics, neurophilosophy, and artificial intelligence. He is Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, and was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. His research explores, among other things, how algorithms and large language models can be responsibly deployed in medical contexts. He has published extensively on topics such as triage, clinical decision-making, and personal identity, with articles appearing in The American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics, and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. His doctoral dissertation, Brain Death: What We Are and When We Die, was completed at the University of St Andrews in collaboration with Heidelberg University. Further information: lukasjmeier.com.

The DiMEN Fellowship is designed to give outstanding early-career researchers the freedom to explore new topics in digital medical ethics. Fellows are free to set their own research agenda—whether it is completing a book chapter, taking first steps into a new field, identifying new collaboration partners, or preparing a grant proposal. As part of their stay, DiMEN Fellows deliver a public lecture in which they present their work conducted during their time in Potsdam or Tübingen.