Dr. Thomas Mueller

Business leader in General Management, Strategic Planning, M&A, specializing in B2B capital equipment in semiconductor metrology and nano/biotechnology. P&L responsibility at multiple business units. Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Yale University.

Responsible for management and marketing of growing instrumentation product line through all PLC phases. Leading crossfunctional teams developing product platforms in record time. Contributing to competitive strategy. Driving revenue and profit growth through share capture. Creating probes of nanoscale structure and properties. Identifying local phase, polymorph, and chemistry. Capable of interrogating samples ranging from individual biomolecules to APIs, battery electrodes, and photovoltaics.

Responsible for marketing and applications development of scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy targeting nano- and biotechnology markets. Performed requirements analyses and developed custom solutions. Co-authored more than 40 peer reviewed publications, reviews, white papers, and applications notes. Internal and external trainer.

Each project lead to multiple publications. Performed studies of surface structure and chemistry using scanning probe microscopy, electron diffraction, and thermal desorption techniques.

Best dissertation award Teaching award Thesis: Development of novel spectroscopic probes for molecular structure and dynamics

Physical chemistry focus. Analytical methods including NMR, GC/MS, UV/VIS, Raman, and IR absorption spectroscopy.