Prof. Dr. phil. Staffan Müller-Wille
Curriculum Vitae
1984-92
Studied geology, paleontology and zoology at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel and the Free University of Berlin. Graduated as a geologist-paleontologist in 1992
1992
Conducting scientific projects at the Free University of Berlin and at the Laboratoire de Petrologie Sedimentaire et Paleontologie, University of Paris XII; participation in the North Sea Expedition 21 of the MS Meteor
1993-1996
Fellowship of the German Research Foundation as part of the Research Training Group “Genesis, Structures and Consequences of Science and Technology”, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld
1997
Fellowship of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
1997
Doctorate at the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the University of Bielefeld on November 6, 1997; title of dissertation “‘ Tracing varieties back to their species’ - On the foundation of a natural system of plants by Carl von Linné (1707-1778).”
1997-1998
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
1998-2000
Research associate at the German Hygiene Museum Dresden; involved in the planning and conception of the new permanent exhibition “Man.”
2000-2004
Research associate at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, responsible for the project “Cultural History of Heredity.”
2004-2007
Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (EGENIS) at the University of Exeter
Since 2007
Senior Lecturer at the Department for Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter.
Since 2015
Honorary Professor at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies at the University of Lübeck
Since 2020
University Lecturer in History of the Life, Human and Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge
Since 2023
Professor in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at the University of Cambridge
A detailed curriculum vitae can be found here.
