Thomas Metzinger

Thomas Metzinger (born 12 March 1958) is a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus of theoretical philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. , he is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, a co-founder of the [https://effektiveraltruismus.de/ German Effective Altruism Foundation], president of the Barbara Wengeler Foundation, and on the advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation and the [https://mind-foundation.org/about-mind/#sab MIND Foundation] . From 2008 to 2009, he served as a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study; from 2014 to 2019, he was a Fellow at the Gutenberg Research College; from 2019 to 2022, he was awarded a ''Senior-Forschungsprofessur'' by the Ministry of Science, Education and Culture. From 2018 to 2020, Metzinger worked as a member of the European Commission’s [https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/european-ai-alliance/ai-hleg-steering-group-european-ai-alliance.html High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence]. In 2022 he was elected into the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Metzinger is a founding member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, where he was a member of the board from 1995 to 2008, and the president from 2009 to 2011. From 2005 to 2007 he was president of the [https://www.gk-ev.de/?lang=en German Cognitive Science Society]. In 2019 he founded the [https://mpe-project.info MPE project] Provided by Wikipedia