
Johannes Müller
A historian by training, Johannes was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz before joining the University of Cologne in 2007 as Head of the Welcome Centre. In 2014, he took over as head of the International Science Department. In addition to maintaining international networks and academic collaborations worldwide, this also included the establishment and expansion of a support program for refugee academics. In 2016, he was a founding member of Scholars at Risk Germany for the University of Cologne and a member of the steering committee until 2023. Since 2023, he has been Director of the Global Office at Goethe University Frankfurt. Johannes holds a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute, Fiesole/Italy.