Albrecht von Müller is director of the Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking since 2001 and teaches philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). His two main fields of interest are the concept of time and the phenomenon of thinking.

After a PhD on “Time and Logic” at the University of Munich he worked for many years in the Max Planck Society, taught in parallel at the University of Munich, and was subsequently director of EUCIS (European Center for International Security). In co-operation with Hans Peter Dürr, he developed the arms control model of mutual defense dominance (“strukturelle Nichtangriffsfähigkeit”) which subsequently became a conceptual cornerstone of the CFE disarmament treaty for Europe.

Since his times at the Max Planck Institute for Physics he continues to develop the visual reasoning methodology “Eidos” that supports complex thinking and decision making processes, and he served as scientific advisor to several governments, supranational institutions and some large corporations.

Since 2005 he developed, together with Eors Szathmary and Thomas Filk, the international masters program MCA (magister cogitationis atrium). The MCA offers an alternative to classical MBA programs. The MCA is focused on the faculty of authentic, innovative thinking. It provides the participants with training in advanced thinking skills and with a broad spectrum of important thought patterns from biology and evolution theory, from physics and complex systems theory, and from cognitive sciences and philosophy. A first master program along these lines has been taught for the first time in 2011 at SISSA, the international school for advanced studies in Trieste.

Von Müller is member of two multidisciplinary research centers at the University of Munich, Human Science Center and Munich Center for Neuroscience, and he is member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institutes of Neurobiology and Biochemistry. Together with Ernst Pöppel, he edits the Springer book series “On Thinking”.