Dr. Philipp Müller

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Philipp Müller is Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at University of Mannheim (since 2019). Between September 2023 and June 2024 he served as Interim Full Professor at the same department. Before, he completed his PhD at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich with “summa cum laude” (2015). He worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Research at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (2010 to 2014) and as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Communication at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2014 to 2019). International academic stays led him to the Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale at the Sapienza – Università di Roma (2013), the Strategic Communication Group, Wageningen University and Research (2024), and the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon (2025). Since 2024, Philipp is Vice Chair of the DGPuK Communication and Politics Division. 

In research and teaching, he focuses on political communication and societal cohesion as well as the social dynamics and societal consequences of media change and digitalization. His methodological expertise is in quantitative methods with special emphasis on the triangulation of computational and traditional quantifying methods. At the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Philipp coordinates the teaching of empirical methods. His works appeared in high-rank journals (e.g. Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Digital Journalism) and won a number of awards, among them the Kaid Sanders Best Article of the Year Award of ICA’s political communication division.

Beyond the academic sphere, Philipp engages in societal knowledge transfer, by authoring articles and expert reports (e.g. for DW Akademie, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), by giving keynote lectures and participating in panel discussions (e.g. for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Rheinland-Pfalz, Jugend- und Sozialamt Frankfurt a. M., Landesanstalt für Medien NRW, Science Media Center Germany), and by media appearances (e.g. Deutschlandfunk, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, SWR Fernsehen, ZDF).

A full list of publications can be found here.