Gerd Müller

Who is Gerd Müller?

Gerd B. Müller is professor at the University of Vienna where he heads the Department of Theoretical Biology and is speaker of the Center for Organismal Systems Biology. His research interests focus on evolutionary innovation, evo-devo theory, and the extension of the Evolutionary Synthesis. He is also concerned with the development of micro-CT based quantitative tools in developmental biology.

Müller received an M.D. in 1979 and a Ph.D. in zoology in 1985, both from the University of Vienna. He has been a sabbatical fellow at the Department of Developmental Biology, Dalhousie University, Canada and a visiting scholar at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. He is a founding member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria, of which he is chairman since 1998. Müller is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including Biological Theory where he serves as an Associate Editor. He is also editor of the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, a book series devoted to theoretical developments in the biosciences, published by MIT Press.