Prof. Daniel Müller new EMBO Member

The Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering is pleased to announce that Daniel Müller has been elected to become a new EMBO member. Currently, external page EMBO has more than 1’700 members – all of them leading researchers in life sciences.

“As an EMBO member I have the possibility to serve Europe’s life science community and to co-create its future. I am very excited about this new task”, says Daniel Müller.

EMBO aims to define molecular biology in the broadest terms possible, encompassing research on the molecular mechanisms of life at all levels: From single molecules to organisms and ecosystems. The major goals of EMBO are to support talented researchers, stimulate the exchange of scientific information and help to build a European research environment where scientists can achieve their best work.

The EMBO members are selected through impartial evaluation processes. Candidates for EMBO Membership are exclusively nominated and elected by the current EMBO Members. Every year, the new EMBO Members are announced shortly after the EMBO Council meeting in spring.

The newly elected EMBO member Prof. Daniel Müller is the Chair of Biophysics at the ETH Zurich Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering located in Basel. Together with his team he develops and applies bionanotechnological tools to quantify and control biological processes from the cellular to the molecular scale. The Biophysics laboratory expertise is highly interdisciplinary and combines molecular and cell biology, biophysics, engineering and nanotechnology.

“The election as a new EMBO member shows that we receive recognition for what we are doing at D-BSSE”, emphasizes Daniel Müller.