Curriculum Vitae – Dr. Shirley A. Müller
To date (January 2020), I am co-author of 2 book chapters and 102 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, of which 9 are review articles.
2012 – present
Editing for Shirley Mueller Scientific Editing
2012 – 04. 2018
Scientific assistant (publications and project management) at the Center for Cellular Imaging and Nanoanalytics (C-CINA), Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland.
2009 – 2012
Scientific assistant at the Center for Cellular Imaging and Nanoanalytics (C-CINA), Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Responsible for running STEM projects in the group of Prof. A. Engel. Later continued to work with STEM in the group of Prof. Henning Stahlberg.
1989 – 2009
Postdoctoral fellow / Scientific assistant at the Maurice E. Müller Institute, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland, in the group of Prof. Andreas Engel.
Carried out many of the evaluations required for STEM mass measurement projects in the groups of Prof. Andreas Engel and Prof. Ueli Aebi and instructed other users. In the later period, responsible for the STEM projects.
1979 – 1989
Break in working life; family.
1977 – 1979
Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Eduard Kellenberger at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Experience : Learnt transmission and scanning transmission electron microscopy (TEM, STEM) under Jacques Dubochet and Andreas Engel.
Aim of the project: To decrease contamination and etching under the electron beam of the scanning transmission electron microscope, to allow the mass of a protein/protein complex to be accurately determined from its electron scattering power.
Side project: Spreading of DNA on carbon supports by glow discharge procedures for subsequent electron microscopy.
1977
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry, University of Exeter, UK.
Field: Surface chemistry.
Topic: The Adsorption of Gas Mixtures to Carbon and Glass Surfaces.
1973
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry; 1st Class Honours, University of Exeter, UK.
1970
‘A’ Levels in Physics, Chemistry and Pure Mathematics and Certificate of Proficiency in Use of English; University of Oxford delegacy of local examinations.
1968
‘O’ Levels in English Language, English Literature, French, Religious Knowledge, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology; University of Oxford delegacy of local examinations.
1967
‘O’ Level in Art; University of Oxford delegacy of local examinations.
1952
Born in Croydon, UK.