Holger Müller, Ph.D.

Holger Müller is an experimental physicist and a faculty member at University of California, Berkeley. He applied for his first patent at the age of 14, graduated from Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) and worked with later Energy Secretary Steven Chu on atom interferometry at Stanford. He is now developing atom interferometers for measurements in fundamental physics, for which he won the Francis M. Pipkin Award of the American Physical Society in 2015. He loves the guitar and the opera.