Martin Müller is Swiss National Science Foundation Professor in the Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne. He heads the research team M3 (Materialities | Multiplicities | Metropolis).
He read for a Master of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and received a PhD in Human Geography from Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He has held fellowships at the universities of British Columbia in Vancouver, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Oxford and at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Before coming to Lausanne, he was Swiss National Science Foundation Professor at the University of Zurich.
Martin Müller co-founded and co-directs the Center for Global Urbanism at Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg, Russia. He is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and, from 2017 to 2018, invited senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Marseille.
Martin Müller's research is concerned with
- improvising cities
- recasting mega-events
- theorising from the Global East
His research has been covered in the New York Times, Financial Times, Newsweek, International Business Times, ABC, Inside Climate News, Toronto Star, Svenska Dagbladet, TV Rain (Russia), El Mercurio (Chile), Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Austrian National Radio (Ö1), Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), NZZ, Tribune de Genève and other outlets.