Since 2024: Group leader of the genome research group of the Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics

2017-2024: Scientific associate in the genome research group of the Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics

2016–2017: Postdoc at the Copenhagen Plant Science Centre (CPSC), University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2011–2015: PhD student and Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne with José M. Jiménez-Gómez and Maarten Koornneef

2009–2010: Graduate student and scientific assistant at the State Institute of Viticulture and Enology in Freiburg

2003–2009: Biology studies at the University of Kassel and the University of Freiburg

• PangenomeBeech - Elucidating the role of structural genetic variation in local adaptation and phenotypic differentiation under different environments
• MonDiö - Resolving the molecular genetics of monoecy and dioecy in the Salicaceae family to explore the evolution of plant sexual systems
• Beech genomics - Population genomics analyses of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) across its distribution range
• FraxGen - Genetic architecture of ash dieback resistance in common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.)

• Lazic D, Geßner C, Liepe KJ, Lesur-Kupin I, Mader M, Blanc-Jolivet C, Gömöry D, Liesebach M, González-Martínez SC, Fladung M, Degen B, Müller NA. (2024) Genomic variation of European beech reveals signals of local adaptation despite high levels of phenotypic plasticity. Nature Communications 15, 8553 (2024). link
• Renner SS, Müller NA. (2021) Plant sex chromosomes defy evolutionary models of expanding recombination suppression and genetic degeneration. Nature Plants 7, 392–402. link
• Müller NA, Kersten B, Leite Montalvão AP, Mähler N, Bernhardsson C, Bräutigam K, Carracedo Lorenzo Z, Hoenicka H, Kumar V, Mader M, Pakull B, Robinson KM, Sabatti M, Vettori C, Ingvarsson PK, Cronk Q, Street NR, Fladung M. (2020) A single gene underlies the dynamic evolution of poplar sex determination. Nature Plants 6, 630–637. link
• Müller NA, Wijnen CL, Srinivasan A, Ryngajllo M, Ofner I, Lin T, Ranjan A, West D, Maloof JN, Sinha NR, Huang S, Zamir D, Jiménez-Gómez JM (2016) Domestication selected for deceleration of the circadian clock in cultivated tomato. Nature Genetics. 48, 89-93. link