After completing a doctoral degree in Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical Institute, Dr Müeller spent 10 years as head of the Vector Borne Diseases Unit at the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research. Since 2011, he has led a laboratory at the Walter + Eliza Hall Institute with a joint appointment with the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and, more recently, at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. His research focuses on understanding the effect of control on the complex epidemiological interaction between host, parasite, and vector, with a special focus on P. vivax malaria.