Since 2014, Steffen Müller has been Professor of Economics, Productivity and Innovation at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and Head of the Department of Structural Change and Productivity at the IWH. He is CESifo and IZA Fellow and member of the standing committees for population economics and social policy of the German Economic Association.
Steffen Müller graduated from high school in Schulpforte (Saxony-Anhalt) in 1996, completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk in Delitzsch, and then studied economics at the University of Leipzig. He moved to the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2005, where he completed his doctorate in 2009 on the topic of "Economic Effects of Workplace Co-determination“. He habilitated there in 2014 and was awarded a teaching license in economics and econometrics. During this time, Steffen Müller also conducted research at the University of California at Berkeley and at Davis.
Steffen Müller's research focuses on structural change in the labor market, firm productivity and the economic differences between East and West Germany.