Research Focus

• General sociology
• Sociological theory
• Media and communication theories
• Political communication
• Cultural sociology
• Architecture and society

Research Projects

• Head of the research project ‘Re/Presentation. New Forms of Political Address and Advocacy’, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, together with Prof. Dr. Astrid Séville and Prof. Dr. Christian Kirchmeier, 2022-2026
• Head of the research project ‘Political Communication of Values’ at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, together with Prof. Dr. Astrid Séville, 2021-2022

Academic Career

• Since April 2025 Senior Lecturer in Sociological Theory at the University of Hamburg
• Winter semester 2024/Summer semester 2025: Visiting Professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg; Faculty of Public Affairs
• Summer semester 2024: Substitute professor for Communication in Institutions and Organisations at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Winter semester 2023/24 – Summer semester 2025: Visiting professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg; Faculty of Public Affairs
• Summer semester 2023: Visiting Professor at Graz University of Technology; Faculty of Architecture
• Winter semester 2022/2023: Substitute professor for Political Sociology at Philipps University of Marburg
• Summer semester 2022: Visiting professorship at Graz University of Technology; Faculty of Architecture
• 2021-22: Research assistant at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• Summer semester 2020: Substitute professor for political sociology at Philipps University of Marburg
• 2014–2021: Assistent professor at the Institute of Sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; General Sociology
• 2014: Doctorate (Dr. phil.), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• 2007-2014: Research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; General Sociology
• Studied sociology and philosophy at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Invitations and Fellowships

• 08/2023: Visiting Fellow at the University of Greifswald, Faculty of Theology
• 10/2022: Visiting Lecturer at Keio University Tokyo, Faculty of Letters
• Summer semester 2022: Visiting Lecturer at the University of Lucerne, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Summer semester 2020: Visiting Lecturer at the University of Lucerne, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Winter semester 2018/19: Junior Researcher in Residence at the Centre for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich

Books

• Astrid Séville/Julian Müller: Politische Redeweisen: Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2024
• Julian Müller: Niklas Luhmann. Philosophie für Einsteiger. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2016
• Julian Müller: Bestimmbare Unbestimmtheiten. Skizze einer indeterministischen Soziologie. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2015

Edited Books

• Astrid Séville/Julian Müller (Hg.): Amtsmenschen. Mittelweg 36 3/4 (2025)
• Heike Delitz/Julian Müller/Robert Seyfert: Handbuch Theorien der Soziologie. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2025
• Julian Müller/Matthias Castorph: The Infraordinary. GAM Architecture Magazine 20. Berlin: Jovis 2024
• Norman Braun/Julian Müller/Armin Nassehi/Irmhild Saake/Tobias Wolbring (Hg.): Begriffe – Positionen – Debatten. Eine Relektüre von 65 Jahren Soziale Welt. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2014
• Julian Müller/Victoria v. Groddeck (Hg.): (Un)Bestimmtheit. Praktische Problemkonstellationen. München: Wilhelm Fink 2013
• Oliver Jahraus/Armin Nassehi/Mario Grizelj/Irmhild Saake/Christian Kirchmeier/Julian Müller (Hg.): Luhmann-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung. Stuttgart: Metzler 2012

Articles in peer-reviewd journals

• Julian Müller/Astrid Séville: Menschen im Amt. Verletzbarkeit in der politischen Kommunikation der Gegenwart. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 54 (2025), 47-62
• Julian Müller: Soziologie mit architektonischen Mitteln. Arbeit an der Grenze von Architektur und Soziologie. In: Artis Observatio 4 (2025), 133-148
• Julian Müller: Import and Export of Ideas. Georg Simmel in Chicago, George M. Beard in Berlin. In: Journal of Classical Sociology 23 (2023), 501-521
• Julian Müller: Profession and Projection. Media Images of Architects. In: GAM Architecture Magazine 19 (2023), 26-36
• Julian Müller/Astrid Séville: Paradoxe Kopplungen. Die Wertekommunikation von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen als Ansprache und Fürsprache einer neuen Mittelklasse. In: Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft 50 (2022), 90-117
• Julian Müller: Symbiotisch oder sozial – Zur Aktualität einer in Vergessenheit geratenen Unterscheidung. In: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie 2 (2020), 260-273
• Julian Müller: Jenseits von Kontemplation und Aktion. Handlungstheorien und ihre konfessionellen Denkvoraussetzungen. In: Sociologia Internationalis 1 (2019), 39-61
• Julian Müller/Mario Grizelj: Ein katholischer Tonfall? Michel de Certeaus und Bruno Latours Zugänge zur religiösen Rede als Alternativen zu einer Intellektuellensoziologie. In: Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik 3 (2019), 177-198
• Julian Müller: Symbolische Erfahrung und symbolische Wirklichkeit. Eine soziologische Relektüre Ernst Cassirers. In: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie 1 (2013), 183-192

• Various articles in the media, including Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 3Sat Kulturzeit, Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), WDR Radio, BR Radio, BR Television, Deutschlandfunk
• Various public lectures at non-university institutions, including Villa Vigonin, Protestant Academy Tutzing, Museum Humpis Forum Ravensburg, Association of German Architects (BDA), Munich Art Association, Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt, Sir Peter Ustinov Institute Vienna
• Lecturer at the Bavarian Chamber of Architects, since 2017
• Lecturer at the Academy for Political Education, Tutzing, since 2016
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Werkbund Bavaria, since 2025

• German Sociological Association (DGS)
• ‘Sociological Theory’ section of the DGS
• ‘Cultural Sociology’ section of the DGS
• ‘History of Sociology’ section of the DGS
• Centre for Democracy Research (ZDEMO) at Leuphana University Lüneburg, since 2023
• Member of the Advisory Board of the ‘Next Generation – AI’ research focus at the Centre for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich, since 2021
• Mentor in the doctoral programme of the Munich Centre for Technology in Society (MCTS) at the Technical University of Munich, 2018–2022
• Member of the editorial team of the journal Soziale Welt. Journal for Social Science Research and Practice, 2007–2017
• Member of the editorial team of Soziopolis, based at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, since 2014