Dr. Julian Müller

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 Political Science
• Summer semester 2024: Visiting professor for the subject area of 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 Political Science Faculty
• Summer semester 2023: Visiting professorship at Graz University of Technology; Faculty of Architecture
• Winter semester 2022/2023: Substitute professorship for the subject area of 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:
• Academic advisor at the Institute of Sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Chair of 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; Chair of General Sociology
• I studied sociology and philosophy at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Tübingen and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. 

Invitations and Fellowships

• 08/2023: Visiting Fellow at the University of Greifswald, Faculty of Theology10/2022: 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 2019/20: Visiting Lecturer at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Architecture
• Winter semester 2018/19: Visiting Lecturer at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Architectur
• Winter semester 2018/19: Junior Researcher in Residence at the Centre for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich

Research Focus
General sociology, sociological theory, history of sociology, media and communication theories, political sociology, political communication, cultural sociology, architecture and society

Research Projects

• Applicant and spokesperson for 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, (Duration 2022-2026).
• Co-director of the research project ‘Political Communication of Values’ at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, together with Prof. Dr. Astrid Séville, (Duration 2021-2022).