2025 Hagströmer fellowship: a residential fellowship in the history of medicine and related sciences

The 2025 Hagströmer Fellowship is awarded to Lukas J. Meier. Dr Meier is a fellow of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, where he is conducting ethical analyses of the latest technology for stimulating the brain - so-called brain computer interfaces. Dr Meier studied philosophy at the University of Oxford and political science at the University of Göttingen and holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews. Subsequently, he was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include neurophilosophy, artificial intelligence, medical ethics, philosophy of mind, and the history of these disciplines.

As our 2025 Hagströmer Fellow, Dr Meier will research the history of psychosurgery in Sweden - a project which proceeds from his investigations of brain washing during the Cold-War era and intelligence services' secret programmes in behavioural modification.