Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Lukas Müller

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Lukas Müller, co-first author of Differential effects of day-night cues and the circadian clock on the barley transcriptome

Current Position: Patent engineer at a patent law firm in Munich, Germany

Education:

2005 – 2008: Bachelor of Science in agricultural sciences at the Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich)

2008 – 2011: Master of Science (MSc) in biology at the Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich)

2012 – 2016: PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne and the Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf on the circadian clock in barley and its effects on physiology and metabolism

2016 – 2017: PostDoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research and the Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf on circadian regulation of physiology in cereal crops

2017 – 2019: PostDoc at the University of Cambridge, UK in the OpenPlant project on the circadian system in the early land plant Marchantia polymorpha

Since 2019: Patent engineer in training as German and European Patent Attorney

Non-scientific Interests: skiing, alpine sports, Italian food

Brief bio: In my research career I was interested in the circadian clock and its effect on physiological and agricultural performance in plants. I particularly focused on the regulation of the transcriptome and the primary metabolism because both represent excellent proxies for systemic processes and vegetative growth.