Summary
Roland M. Mueller is a Professor of Information Systems specializing in Business Intelligence with over a decade of academic leadership at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and visiting roles at institutions like HPI and the University of Twente. He blends rigorous research—holding a summa cum laude PhD—with hands-on innovation, having co-founded SPEECHA and created TheoryMaps, a collaborative repository of causal theories. His work spans ontology learning, temporal text mining and unsupervised data-mining methods from EU research projects to practical BI consulting for firms such as SAP, Daimler and Unilever. Roland also brings startup experience and advisory insight, having mentored Distimo prior to its acquisition and built recommendation and geo-tagging systems for media discovery. Known for bridging theory and practice, he frequently translates advanced academic methods into commercial analytics and design-thinking contexts. Based in Berlin, he combines deep technical expertise with a track record of cross-sector impact and entrepreneurial curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Information Systems, summa cum laude, Ph.D., Information Systems, summa cum laude at Free University of Berlin
German, English