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Stefan Müller, born in 1968 in Jena, majored in computer science, computer linguistics, and linguistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and in Edinburgh. The following three years he did research and taught at Humboldt-Universität. He then worked for three years as grammar developer at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrücken (DFKI), where he defended his doctoral thesis in 1997. This was followed by a year as a senior grammar developer at Interprice Berlin. He was also a visiting lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Stefan Müller worked as a substitute professor of German linguistics and computer linguistics at Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena (2001 to 2003). In 2003 he was appointed junior professor of theoretical linguistics and computer linguistics at the University of Bremen. From 2005 to 2006 he was a substitute professor of theoretical computer linguistics at the University of Potsdam. Since 2007 he has been a professor of German grammar and general linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin.

In addition to German, Müller works with Mandarin-Chinese, Danish, Maltese, and Persian. The aim of his research is to understand the structures of languages and to find commonalities in languages and classes of language. In the context of head-driven phrase structure grammar, he develops formal models and checks their consistency using computer implementations.