Prof. Dr. Guido Müller
Curriculum Vitae
Guido Müller graduated from the University of Hannover with a degree in physics in 1993. In 1997, he completed a doctorate in physics at the University of Hannover's Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics. After post-doctoral positions at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and the University of Florida between 1997 and 2000, he became a research associate at the University of Florida. From 2001 to 2003, he was also a guest scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In 2003, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Florida. In 2007, he was promoted to Associate Professor and in 2012 to Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Florida. Since 2022, he has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Hannover, and since 2024, Professor at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Research Interests
Guido Müller's department is responsible for the development of the interferometric detection system for LISA. LISA is ESA's largest research mission in development and will measure low-frequency gravitational waves in space from 2037. The group is also involved in the GRACE-C and NGGM missions, which are designed to measure the Earth's water budget. It is also participating in the search for axion-like dark matter and plans to measure magnetic birefringence in a vacuum.
Selected Awards
Guido Müller is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the recipient of the Special Breakthrough Prize (2016) and the Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016).