Daniel Jobst Müller (born 22 March 1965) is a German scientist and Professor of Biophysics at

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. He is known for work on single molecule and

cell biophysics Cell biophysics (or cellular biophysics) is a sub-field of biophysics that focuses on physical principles underlying cell function. Sub-areas of current interest include statistical models of intracellular signaling dynamics, intracellular transpor ...

bionanotechnology Nanobiotechnology, bionanotechnology, and nanobiology are terms that refer to the intersection of nanotechnology and biology. Given that the subject is one that has only emerged very recently, bionanotechnology and nanobiotechnology serve as blank ...

, and

membrane proteins Membrane proteins are common proteins that are part of, or interact with, biological membranes. Membrane proteins fall into several broad categories depending on their location. Integral membrane proteins are a permanent part of a cell membrane ...

Education

Müller was educated in physics at the University of Technology Berlin and the Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin, Germany. He did his PhD research at

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis''; German: ''Universität Basel'') is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest univ ...

with Andreas Engel and

Forschungszentrum Jülich Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ; “Jülich Research Centre”) is a German national research institution that pursues interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy, information, and bioeconomy. It operates a broad range of research infrast ...

with Goerg Büldt. He was awarded his PhD in 1997 in Life Sciences at the University of Basel.

Research career

In 2000, Müller became a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany. Shortly after, he was appointed full Professor at

Technical University of Dresden TU Dresden (for , abbreviated as TUD), also as the Dresden University of Technology, is a public research university in Dresden, Germany. It is the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony a ...

in 2002, where he acted as director from 2003 to 2005. His research group initially focused on single molecule

biophysics Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations ...

before branching out into wider topics such as cell biophysics,

cell adhesion Cell adhesion is the process by which cells interact and attach to neighbouring cells through specialised molecules of the cell surface. This process can occur either through direct contact between cell surfaces such as Cell_junction, cell junc ...

, and

cell mechanics Cell mechanics is a sub-field of biophysics that focuses on the mechanical properties and behavior of living cells and how it relates to cell function. It encompasses aspects of cell biophysics, biomechanics, soft matter physics and rheology, mech ...

. In 2010 Müller was appointed as a Professor at

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in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering,

Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. In 2014 Muller co-launched the Swiss National Competence Centre of Research (NCCR) on Molecular Systems Engineering seeking to establish new engineering principles to assemble functional molecular modules into complex systems that can fulfill tasks not observed in nature. In the last 20 years he has co-authored more than 200 research articles in international scientific journals and been cited more than 17,000 times. In 2006 Müller founded , a

company focused on automated robotic technology for high-throughput single molecule

force spectroscopy Force spectroscopy is a set of techniques for the study of the interactions and the binding forces between individual molecules. These methods can be used to measure the mechanical properties of single polymer molecules or proteins, or individual c ...

of proteins. The company was acquired by JPK instruments in 2008.

References

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