Kian Mintz-Woo works on moral and normative issues, both fundamental (in moral ontology and philosophical methodology) and applied (in climate ethics and climate economics). Recently, he has been working on questions related to carbon taxes in the context of COVID-19; the role of philosophers in public policy; global versus local social costs of carbon; and loss and damage in the post-Paris climate policy space. Until August of 2020, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University at the University Center for Human Values. Since then, he has been an honorary Guest Research Scholar at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. Since September 2020, he is a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) and since 2024, Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) at University College Cork, Ireland.

In 2025, he was named Early-Career Researcher of the Year at University College Cork.

His favourite food is lemon sorbet