Curriculum Vitae
My main interest is inverse problems in the context of helioseismology, in particular passive imaging and helioseismic holography. In my work, I am developing new and stable reconstruction techniques to use the full seismic correlation data on the solar surface to image subsurface solar flows. My work combines theoretical and computational aspects, including the analysis of uniqueness and stability for passive imaging problems and the reconstruction of large-scale flow patterns, such as the solar differential rotation and meridional circulation, from observational data.
Awards and Fellowship
2025 Otto-Hahn medal, awarded by the Max-Planck society
2025 IOP best paper awarded by "Inverse Problems" for an outstanding paper published in 2023-2025
Education and Employment
2023 - ongoing: Postdoc at MPS, working on Inverse problems in helioseismology
2020-2023: PhD studies at the MPS working on Helioseismology and Inverse Problems,
Thesis: "Iterative helioseismic holography" (thesis supervisors Laurent Gizon, Thorsten Hohage, Damien Fournier)
2015-2020: Studies in mathematics and physics, University of Göttingen
Master thesis: "Reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei-Time series Inversion" (thesis supervisors Wolfram Kollatschny, Wolfgang Glatzel, Martin Ochmann)
Bachelor thesis: "Inversion of Meridional Flow Using Pinsker Estimator" (thesis supervisors Laurent Gizon, Thorsten Hohage, Vincent Böning, Damien Fournier)
Selected Publications
[4] T. Hohage, M. Karimi, B. Müller (2026), Holographic X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging with Partial Coherence: Uniqueness and Reconstructions from Intensity Correlations, arxiv eprint (2026)
[3] Mueller, B., Hohage, T., Gizon, L., Fournier, D. (2024) Quantitative passive imaging by iterative holography: the example of helioseismic holography. Inverse Problems 40(4), 045016
[2] W. Kollatschny, M. W. Ochmann, S. Kaspi, C. Schumacher, E. Behar, D. Chelouche, K. Horne, B. Müller , S. E. Rafter, R. Chini, M. Haas, M.A. Probst (2026) The Great Slump: Mrk 926 reveals discrete and varying Balmer line satellite components during a drastic phase of decline, A&A (2022), 657, A122
[1] B. Mueller, Iterative helioseismic holography, PhD thesis, Georg-August-University of Göttingen