Johannes Himmelreich is a philosopher who teaches and works in a policy school. He is an Associate Professor in Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He works in the areas of political philosophy, applied ethics, and philosophy of science. Currently, he researches the ethics of data science, how the government should use AI, and algorithmic fairness under uncertainty. 

He published papers on “Responsibility for Killer Robots”, the trolley problem and the ethics of self-driving cars, as well as on the role of embodiment in virtual reality.

He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics (LSE). Prior to joining Syracuse, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin and at in the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University. During his time in Silicon Valley, he consulted on tech ethics for Fortune 500 companies, and taught ethics at Apple.