Max Kölbel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, and on the Board of Directors for Knowledge in Crisis. He is Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Vienna, and also directs the FWF doc.funds project PACE.  He has worked at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of the UNAM in Mexico City, at the University of Wales Swansea, the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Cambridge and at the Philosophy Department of the University of Birmingham (2001–9).

Between 2008 and 2017 Max was ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona and Senior Member of the Logos Research Group. There he was involved in developing a postgraduate programme in analytic philosophy, and also ran several research projects, including “Semantic Content and Context Dependence,” “Semantic Content and Conversational Dynamics,” and “Foundations and Methods of Natural Language Semantics.”

From 2020 to 2023 he was member of the FWF Board (“Kuratorium”) and reporter for philosophy/theology and cultural sciences. From 2022 to 2024, he was Director of Studies in Philosophy (SPL18) at the University of Vienna.