Prof. Hermann J. Müller

Between 2000 - 2022, Prof. Hermann J. Müller was a Chair Professor of General and Experimental Psychology (Now Neuro-cognitive Psychology) at the Psychology Department, LMU Munich. His previous appointments include: from 1997-2000, Professor (Chair) of Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig (the Chair of the founder of academic psychology, Wilhelm Wundt); from 1992-1997, Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College (University of London), UK.

He gained his Ph.D. in 1986 at the University of Durham, UK (supervised by Prof. John Findlay), and his Master's degree in 1982 at the University of Würzburg, Germany (supervised by Prof. Dieter Heller).

Since 2000, Hermann Müller and his team have secured over five million euros in research funding, primarily from the German Research Foundation (DFG). During this period, he has published more than one hundred original research articles in leading international journals of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience and contributed nearly twenty chapters to edited volumes. He has also co-edited several books and special journal issues. In recognition of his outstanding research achievements, he received a prestigious LMUexcellence Research Professorship in 2007.

In addition to his research professorship, he served as Program Director of the M.Sc. in Neuro-cognitive Psychology (NCP), coordinated Research Area A: Neuro-cognitive Foundations, and sat on the Executive Board of the excellence cluster Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys). He also co-founded and held an Executive Board position at the Munich Center for Neurosciences (MCN) and acted as Principal Investigator and Scientific Board member of the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN).