Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
D-53113 Bonn
Research Area Economization
Sebastian Müller studied philosophy, mathematics, and history at the University of Mannheim. While working on his PhD he was a research associate at the Institute for Practical Philosophy, as well as research associate at the institute for Marketing at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. After his PhD in 2020 he joined the cologne center for ethics, rights, economics, and social sciences in health at cologne university and managed the ViCon project. Since 2022 he is a senior researcher at the center for life ethics and the Heinrich Herz Chair of Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen at the University of Bonn and the head of the research department economisation. Overall Sebastian Müller is interested in philosophy of economics, ethics, social ontology, and Public Health Ethics.
Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
53113 Bonn
2015 - 2020
Ph.D. student in philosophy at Kiel University. The thesis “Consumption and Role Responsibility” is supervised by Prof. Dr. Ludger Heidbrink.
2009 – 2015
State examination in philosophy, mathematics, and history at Manheim University
Since 2022
Senior researcher at the Center for Life Ethics at the Bonn University, head of the research department of economisation, and researcher in the ViCon project.
Since 2021
Application development and consulting for the BMJV funded project NakosiR (Nachhaltige Konsumstile in prototypischen sozialen Rollen-Überschneidungen) at Kiel University. The project investigate inter- and intra-role conflicts in sustainable consumption contexts.
2020 - 2022
Research Fellow with theBMBF funded project ViCon (Virtual assistant for informed consent) at ceres, University of Cologne.
2019 - 2020
Research associate with the project ROKOKO (Verbraucherrollen im kollaborativen Konsum) at Kiel University. The project investigates the attitudes and motives that promote or reduce collaborative consumption practices and outlines the social role of the collaborative consumer.
2018 - 2019
Advisor for the BMJV funded project ROKOKO at Kiel University.
2016 - 2019
Research associate with the BMBF funded project GESIOP (Gesundheitsmanagement aus inter-organisationaler Perspektive) at Kiel University. The project’s key objective is to develop ethical guidelines for occupational health activities and to give practical guidance on how to implement these guidelines in a company’s management structure.
2016
Consultant for consumer education at Verbraucherzentrale Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
2017
Emerging Scholar Award of the Society for Business Ethics in Atlanta (USA)
2016-2017
Transatlantic Doctoral Academy on Business, Economics, and Ethics (TADA) Scholarship, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Beschorner and Prof. Dr. Matthias Schmidt.
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