Mark W. Mueller joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, in August 2016. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pretoria and a master’s degree from the ETH Zurich in 2011, both in mechanical engineering. He completed his doctoral studies, advised by Raffaello D’Andrea, at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at the ETH Zurich at the end of 2015. Before joining UC Berkeley, he spent some time with Verity Studios.
Mueller received the 2016 George Giralt Ph.D. Award for the best robotics-related Ph.D. thesis defended at a European Ph.D.-awarding institution during the year 2015; the 2011 Jakob Ackeret Prize from the Swiss Association of Aeronautical Sciences for his master’s thesis; and an award for the best final year project for his bachelor’s thesis in 2008.