Michael Müller

Michael Müller serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Geography and its Didactics, University of Education Freiburg since 2009, holding multiple leadership roles including elected Senate membership, chair of the Senate Sustainability Committee, and Director of the Sustainability Office. His work focuses on geography didactics for secondary education, integrating research with teaching and extensive administrative duties in curriculum development and institutional governance.

His educational trajectory includes doctoral completion in 2017 on bilingual geography task design, preceded by Realschule teacher training at PH Freiburg (1991-1995) and professional experience as a school teacher (1997-2006). Key appointments include secondments to the Institute for Anglistik (1999-2009) where he developed the European Teaching Program.

Research centers on geography education innovation, particularly bilingual teaching methodologies (Geography-English) and intercultural competence development. His signature contribution is a task-based model for fostering students' value orientations through reflective classroom activities, expanded into sustainable development education (2025) and ethical geography teaching (2022). This bridges language acquisition, subject knowledge, and cultural awareness in secondary contexts.

His publication record shows sustained output since 2006, with monograph-level depth in 2018 and recent expansion into sustainability ethics. Approximately 70% address bilingual geography teaching, demonstrating consistent specialization while evolving toward broader educational frameworks like Sustainable Development Goal 4.

As an advisor, Müller supervises student internships and research projects, emphasizing practical application through field excursions (Rhine River, Freiburg's Vauban district) and curriculum development. His administrative scope spans examination regulations, European program coordination, and sustainability strategy implementation across the university.

Though no formal lab exists, his leadership of the Sustainability Office and international IGU-CGE collaborations creates research-oriented opportunities. His work maintains strong connections to classroom practice while contributing to global geography education discourse through conferences in London, Lancaster, and New York.