BIRTH: 17. April 1953, Salzburg, Austria.
EDUCATION: Medical School, University of Vienna and Natural Sciences Faculty, University of Vienna. M.D. 1979, Ph.D. Zoology, 1983.
PAST POSITIONS:
1979-80 Research Assistant, Medical School, University of Vienna;
1980-88 Assistant Professor of Anatomy, University of Vienna;
1988 Visiting Professor, Dalhousie University;
1989 Appointed Visiting Scholar, Harvard University;
1990-03 Associate Professor of Anatomy and Embryology, Medical School, University of Vienna;
2003 Professor of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna.
PRESENT POSITION:
1998- Chairman, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg;
2005- Head, Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna;
2008- Speaker, Center for Organismal Systems Biology, University of Vienna.
EDITORIAL BOARDS:
1990-93 Journal of Evolutionary Biology;
1991-04 Evolution and Cognition;
1999- Journal of Experimental Zoology, Molecular and Developmental Evolution;
1999- Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology (Series Editor);
2006- Biological Theory (Associate Editor).
BOOKS:
Evolution – The Extended Synthesis, Pigliucci M. and Müller G.B. (eds.) MIT-Press, 2009 in press; Modeling Biology, Laubichler M. and G.B. Müller (eds.) MIT-Press, 2007;
Environment, Development, and Evolution; Hall B.K., R. Pearson, and G.B. Müller (eds.) MIT-Press, 2004; Origination of Organismal Form, Müller G.B. and S.A. Newman (eds.) MIT-Press, 2003.
SELECTED PAPERS:
G.B. Müller, 2007, EvoDevo: Extending the evolutionary synthesis, Nat. Rev. Genet. 8(12): 943-950; S.A. Newman, G. Forgacs, and G.B. Müller, 2006, Before programs: The physical origination of multicellular forms, Int. J. Dev. Biol. 50: 289-299;
G.B. Müller and S.A. Newman, 2005, The innovation triad: An EvoDevo agenda, J. Exp. Zool. MDE 304: 487-503;
S.A. Newman and G.B. Müller, 2000, Epigenetic mechanisms of character origination, J. Exp. Zool. MDE 288: 304-317;
J. Streicher, M.A. Donat, B. Strauss, R. Spörle, K. Schughart, and G.B. Müller, 2000, Computer-based three-dimensional representation of developmental gene expression, Nat. Genet. 25 (2): 147-152.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/gerhard.mueller/
CONTACT:
gerhard.mueller@univie.ac.at
MULLER GERD
Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali
Area disciplinare: SCIENZE BIOLOGICHE
Data elezione: s.s. 16 giugno 2009
Professore emerito di Scienza delle finanze dell'Università di Padova
Gerd Müller è Professore di biologia teorica nell’Università di Vienna.
Nato a Salisburgo nel 1953, ha conseguito lauree in Medicina e Zoologia a Vienna.
È Presidente del Konrad Lorenz Institute e Capo del Dipartimento di Biologia Teorica a Vienna.
È socio straniero (s.s.) dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti dal 16 giugno 2009.
Le sue ricerche vertono sulla biologia evoluzionistica dello sviluppo e la biologia teorica, con pubblicazioni e ruoli editoriali.