Prof. David A Muller

David Muller is the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University, and co-director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscale Science at Cornell.  Muller received his BSc from the University of Sydney, his PhD from Cornell, and was a research scientist at Bell Labs from 1997-2003.  His research interests include new electron microscopy methods for the atomic-scale control and characterization of matter.  His group's inventions and advances in new microscopy technology have led to three Guinness World Records: for the highest resolution microscope, the worlds' thinnest sheet of glass (at only a monolayer) and the world's smallest walking robot. 

He is a fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Microscopy Society of America, and recipient of the Microscopy Society of America Burton Medal, the Microanalysis Society Duncumb Award, and the Ernst Ruska prize from the German Society for Electron Microscopy.