Researcher

Sebastian Möller

Also known as Sebastian Moeller

Sebastian Möller is a professor at TU Berlin and heads the Speech and Language Technology department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). His research centers on speech technology, and in 2021 he co-authored NISQA, a deep model for multidimensional speech quality prediction. From 1994 to 2005 he worked at Ruhr University Bochum, where he earned a doctorate in 1999, and from 2005 to 2015 he worked at Telekom Innovation Laboratories. At TU Berlin he was Vice Dean for Research from 2015 to 2017 and Dean from 2017 to 2019, and in 2017 he took charge of DFKI's Speech and Language Technology research area. He served as president of ISCA from 2021 to 2023, and in 2024 the association listed him among its Fellows for sustained contributions to the evaluation of speech transmission, processing, and speech technology.

Works
931
Citations
9,895
h-index
42

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1994–2005

    A doctorate in Bochum

    From 1994 to 2005 he works at the Institute for Communication Acoustics at Ruhr University Bochum, and he earns a doctorate there in 1999.

  2. 2005–2015

    Telekom Innovation Laboratories

    Between 2005 and 2015 he works at Telekom Innovation Laboratories, an affiliated institute of TU Berlin.

  3. 2015–2019

    Faculty leadership at TU Berlin

    He serves as Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at TU Berlin from 2015 to 2017, and as its Dean from 2017 to 2019.

  4. 2017

    Scientific director at DFKI

    In 2017 he takes charge of DFKI's Speech and Language Technology research area as Scientific Director.

  5. 2021

    The NISQA speech quality model

    Co-authoring NISQA in 2021, he helps publish a deep model for multidimensional speech quality prediction.

  6. 2021–2023

    Presidency of ISCA

    He leads the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) as its president from 2021 to 2023.

  7. 2024

    An ISCA fellowship

    ISCA lists him among its 2024 Fellows for sustained contributions to the evaluation of speech transmission, processing, and speech technology.

  8. As of October 2026

    Department head at DFKI

    He is a professor at TU Berlin and heads DFKI's Speech and Language Technology department.

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  1. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller www-live.dfki.de. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Möller bifold.berlin. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Sebastian Möller - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. ISCA Archive - NISQA: A Deep CNN-Self-Attention Model for Multidimensional Speech Quality Prediction with Crowdsourced Datasets isca-archive.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. ISCA - ISCA Fellow Program isca-speech.org. Checked 15 October 2026.