Following his PhD in Geography at the University of Marburg (Germany), Jan Marco Müller’s career included positions in research management at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) In Leipzig (Germany), the former JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) in Ispra (Italy) and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) in Wallingford (UK).
After being an Assistant to the Director-General of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre JRC in Brussels (2009-2012), he managed the office of the first Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission (2012-2015) and then helped setting up the Commission’s current Scientific Advice Mechanism. 2017-2020 he worked for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna (Austria) as Coordinator for Science Diplomacy, Head of the Directorate Office and Acting Chief Operations Officer.
2020-2022 he served as the first Science & Technology Advisor of the European External Action Service (EEAS), before joining DG Research and Innovation as Coordinator for Science Diplomacy and Multilateral Relations, where he currently oversees the development of a European framework for science diplomacy.