Dr. Simon Meisch works at the department »Ethics and Education« and is responsible for coordinating the interdisciplinary ethics teaching at the IZEW. He studied political science and modern German literature at the Universities of Tübingen and Edinburgh (Scotland) and wrote his doctorate in political science. After graduating, he worked at the IZEW, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS, Potsdam) and the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (Universitetet i Bergen, Norway) on ethical and epistemological research questions.