Rolf Müller received both his MSc. and his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the University of Tübingen in Germany. He has been a postdoctoral fellow with the Electrical Engineering Department of Yale University for two years. From August 2000 to June 2003, he has headed the ``Biosonar Lab'', a start-up at the University of Tübingen. From 2003 until 2005, he has been an assistant professor at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology. Since 2005, he is a full Professor of Physics at the School of Physics & Microelectronics, Shandong University. His research interests are bioinspired beamforming and robotics, in particular in conjunction with sonar sensing, as well as statistical neural coding in biosonar systems seen from an engineering perspective. For this purpose he has been studying the noseleaf and ear shapes of bats with numerical methods and has been developing both robotic and computational models. Since 1995 he has published more than 60 journal and international conference papers on these topics. He has received scholarships from the German Merit Foundation, a NATO postdoctoral fellowship through the German Academic Exchange Agency (DAAD), the Dissertation Award of the University of Tübingen, and the "Top Ten Scholars in the News" award of Shandong University (2006).

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