Mueller Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Karl Mueller, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed by peers upon members of the AAAS, the world's largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science.

In his research, Mueller uses magnetic resonance spectroscopy to address chemical questions at the interfaces of complex materials, such as multi-component oxide glasses and environmentally important solids, including minerals, glasses, and clays. Mueller's previous awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1999, a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Study Visit Fellowship in 1998, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 1997, a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation in 1996, an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1996, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award in 1992. He has published his research in journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Molecular Physics. He has served as a reviewer for many peer-reviewed publications including Accounts of Chemical Research, Chemical Physics Letters, the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Mueller's professional affiliations include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Ceramic Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, and the Geological Society of America. In addition to working as an educator and a researcher, Mueller has served as a consultant for Corning Incorporated, Dow Corning Incorporated, PPG Industries, and Merck.

Mueller earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry, summa cum laude, at the University of Rochester in 1985, was awarded a certificate of postgraduate studies as a Churchill Scholar at Cambridge University in 1986, and received a doctoral degree in chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. He then held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of British Columbia until 1993, when he joined the Penn State faculty. Since 2010, Mueller has held an appointment as the lead scientist for Magnetic Resonance at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.