Environmental Research Institute

• Keep the inorganic trace analytical laboratory operational.
• Keep the inorganic trace analytical laboratory operational.
• Develop and lead research in marine biogeochemistry.

• Emerging Contaminants & Ecotoxicology
• Biogeochemistry
• Ecology and Ecosystems

• 1997 - 2004:
  senior lecturer at the University of Bergen, Norway.
• 1988 - 1996:
  postdoctoral positions held at the University of Southampton, UK.
• 1984 - 1987:
  teaching assistant in chemical oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, USA.

Qualifications:

• PhD in Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, USA
• MSc Oceanography, University of Southampton, UK
• BSc Chemistry ENSCS, Strasbourg, France

Professional membership:

• Membership of the Challenger Society for Marine Science
• Membership of the American Chemical Society

• Muller FLL, Bleie B, 2008. Estimating the organic acid contribution to coastal seawater alkalinity by potentiometric titrations in a closed cell. Analytica Chimica Acta, in press.
• Muller FLL, Larsen A, Stedmon CA, Søndergaard M, 2005. Interactions between algal-bacterial populations and trace metals in fjord surface waters during a nutrient-stimulated summer bloom. Limnology and Oceanography 50: 1855-1871.
• Muller FLL, Jacquet S, Wilson WH, 2003. Biological factors regulating the chemical speciation of Cu, Zn and Mn under different nutrient regimes in a marine mesocosm experiment. Limnology and Oceanography 48: 2289-2302.
• Tankéré SPC, Bourne DG, Muller FLL, Torsvik V (2002) Microenvironments and microbial community structure in sediments. Environmental Microbiology 4: 97-105.
• Muller FLL, Gulin SB, Kalvøy Ǻ (2001) Chemical speciation of copper and zinc in surface waters of the wstern Black Sea. Marine Chemistry 76: 233-251.

• Travel Grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to cover the costs of a one-month visit to the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan in October 2008.

Current:

• Raquel Falcon (MSc)
• Jason McIlvenny (PhD)
• Silvia Batchelli (PhD)

• Marine biogeochemistry
• Marine and analytical chemistry
• Behaviour of natural colloids and (emerging interest) nanoparticles in aquatic systems