Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Müller

 

 

Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Müller
ETH Zürich
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE)
Mattenstrasse 26
4058 Basel

Phone +41 61 387 33 07
E-Mail: daniel.mueller@bsse.ethz.ch
Website: Biophysics Group

 

Daniel Müller has been a full Professor of Biophysics at the ETH Zurich since 1. April 2010.

Prof. Müller was born on March 22, 1965 in Bad Wimpfen, Germany and studied physics at the University of Technology of Berlin and the Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin, Germany. After finishing his studies he started his Ph.D. in Biophysics at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, with Georg Büldt and at the Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland with Andreas Engel. In 1997 he finished his Ph.D. and received the Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Life Sciences of the University of Basel. In 2000 Daniel Müller received his habilitation ‘venia legendi’ in Biophysics from the University of Basel. In 2000 Daniel Müller continued his career as a group leader at the newly founded Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany. In 2002 Daniel Müller accepted a full professorship of Cellular Machines at the Biotechnology Center of the University of Technology, Dresden. He acted as a director of the Center from 2003-2005. In 2006 Müller co-funded one of the largest Bionanotechnology Spin-Offs in Germany. The company developing and manufacturing the world’s first robot that fully automatically conducts single-molecule experiments was sold in 2008. In December 2009 Daniel Müller accepted the Chair of Bionanotechnology at the ETHZ Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) in Basel.