Jürgen L. Müller

Prof. Dr. Jürgen L. Müller is the Chief Physician at the Asklepios Specialist Clinic Göttingen for Neurology, Psychiatry, and Psychotherapy, in the Department of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Since 2006, he has been a university professor for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Ludwig Meyer Institute of the Georg-August University in Göttingen and is an examiner for the Lower Saxony Medical Association for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Additionally, Prof. Dr. Jürgen L. Müller has numerous publications and memberships in medical professional societies. His research focuses on treatment in psychiatric compulsory measures, forensic-relevant paraphilias, the neurobiological foundations of forensic-relevant behavior, the usability of empirical methods in the legal assessment of forensic-relevant disorders, and the predictors of legal success in preventive detention and forensic psychiatric placement. Therefore, Prof. Dr. Jürgen L. Müller is not only the Deputy Director of the Center for Medical Law at the Georg-August University Göttingen but also enjoys a high reputation in medicine, especially in his field of work. Jürgen Müller was born in Würzburg as the second of three children of master butcher Walter Müller and his wife Rosa, née Lutz. He attended primary school in Rottendorf from 1969 ; four years later he attended Schönborn-Gymnasium in Würzburg and from 1975 the Deutschhaus-Gymnasium (modern language branch), where he graduated in 1982. After basic military service as a paramedic in Veitshöchheim and Wildflecken, he studied human medicine at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg from the summer semester of 1984 to November 1990. He began his dissertation on Oskar Panizza in 1987 under Gundolf Keil and Gerhardt Nissen . He received his doctorate in June 1991. He completed his practical year at the University of Würzburg (with the elective subject neurology ) and the third part of the medical examination in November 1990. [ 2 ] After his training as a specialist in neurology, psychiatry and psychotherapy, he was clinically responsible as well as scientifically and expertly active in forensic psychiatry in Homburg/Saar, Bern and Regensburg. In 2003, Müller completed his habilitation at the University of Regensburg on the contribution of functional magnetic resonance imaging to the connectivity model of neuropsychiatric disorders. Since 2006 he has been a university professor for forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Ludwig Meyer Institute of the Georg August University in Göttingen. [ 3 ] He is also chief physician of the Asklepios Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Göttingen. [ 4 ]