Dr. Marcus Mueller

Marcus Müller received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany working with Kurt Binder. After postdocs with Mike Cates (Edinburgh) and Michael Schick (Seattle, WA), he obtained his Habilitation from the Gutenberg University in 1999. Before joining the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Göttingen in 2005, he was an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Heisenberg fellow of DFG. The APS awarded him the 2004 John H. Dillon Medal and he received a Lichtenberg professorship from the Volkswagen foundation.
His research interests focus on computational soft and biological matter. He has co-authored more than 300 publications and is a fellow of APS, chairman of the scientific council of the von-Neumann-Institute for Computing (NIC), and has been spokesperson of the Chemical and Polymer Physics Division of DPG (until Sept 2021). He serves as an associate editor of ACS Macro Letters.