Prof. Dirk Müller

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Müller began his scientific career after studying mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and receiving a Bachelor of Engineering from Dartmoth College in Hanover / N.H., USA. After completing his doctorate at RWTH Aachen University at the Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer, he worked at Robert Bosch GmbH in the central department for Research and Advanced Engineering and then at Behr GmbH as a process manager for simulation processes. In 2003, Dirk Müller was appointed university professor at the TU Berlin and was head of the Hermann Rietschel Institute until 2007. In 2007, he followed the call of RWTH Aachen University and has since been head of the Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate. From 2011 to 2015, in addition to his work at RWTH Aachen, he took over the technical management of TROX GmbH. Since 2016, he has been Vice Dean in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In 2017, Dirk Müller was appointed as one of the directors in the Institute of Energy and Climate Research – Energy Systems Engineering (ICE-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich.