Stefan Mario Maul (born 24 December 1958 in Aachen) is a German Assyriologist and holder of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.
Maul studied Assyriology, Near Eastern Archaeology and Egyptology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, where he received his doctorate as a student of Rykle Borger in 1987.
Since 1995 he is Ordinarius for Assyriology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Since 2004 Maul has headed the research unit of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences "Edition of literary cuneiform texts from Assur".
In 1997 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his research activities.
In 1998 he became a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, in 2003 a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences[1] and in 2012 a member of the Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.