Dr. Torger Möller

Dr. Torger Möller studied sociology, computer science, medical sociology, and economics at the universities of Marburg and Hamburg. He received his doctorate from the Institute for Science and Technology Studies at Bielefeld University, where he also worked as a doctoral fellow in a DFG research training group and as a researcher from 1999 to 2003. The key findings of his doctoral thesis were awarded the second prize of the Young Scholar Award of the Institute for Humanity, Ethics, and Science. From 2003 to the end of 2007, he worked as a researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in the BMBF funding initiative "Knowledge for Decision-Making Processes - Research on the Relationship between Science, Politics, and Society". During this time, Dr. Möller taught courses at Charité - University Medicine Berlin. In 2008, he joined the Risk Communication Department of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment. From 2009 to 2011, he worked at the Center for Cluster Development at Freie Universität Berlin as part of the Excellence Initiative. Since April 2011, Dr. Möller has been working as a senior researcher and project leader at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW, until 2015 Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, iFQ). Between 2013 and 2015, he held the position of data protection officer, and from 2020 to 2022 he was acting head of Department 2 "Research System and Science Dynamics" at the Berlin branch of the DZHW. Since 2025, he has been conducting research at the Hanover branch in Department 3 "Governance in Higher Education and Science".