Martin Müller is Executive Director of the Academic Forum at GESDA – the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator. As such, he acts as interface with the global science community and leads the rolling development of the Science Breakthrough Radar (https://radar.gesda.global), GESDA’s tool for science anticipation. Prior to joining GESDA, Martin was heading SwissCore – the Swiss Contact Office for Education, Research and Innovation (ERI) – in Brussels, working at the interface of science, science policy and diplomacy. In this role, he helped shape the involvement and safeguard the influence of Swiss ERI organizations with respect to the European Union, its institutional bodies and related organisations, at a critical time in Swiss-EU relations. In addition, he held leadership roles in pan-European science organizations, such as chair of the Science Europe working group on Horizon Europe, the EU’s €80 billion research and innovation programme, and coordinator of a pan-European initiative on strategic planning and funding for large research infrastructures. Martin has a background in communication systems and obtained his PhD in biomedical engineering from ETH Zurich in 2012.

Anticipating Scientific Advances for Humanity | Martin Müller | TEDxIHEID

Science and technology are moving forward very rapidly, at a rate which is faster and with cumulative consequences that are more important than ever seen before, with the potential to re-define humanity’s future as a species: the way we live together – and the future of our planet. So what to do? The response calls upon our ability to anticipate major converging and mutually reinforcing science advances in the coming 25 years and imagine a collective future where those advances would be deployed for the benefit of humanity.