Ing. Ilona Müllerová, DrSc.

Between 1976 and 1981 she studied on and graduated from the Faculty of electrical engineering of the Brno University of Technology. In 1990 she was awarded with her PhD on the Czech University of Technology in Prague and also there she acquired her DSc. degree in 2001 upon defence of the dissertation entitled The scanning electron microscopy with slow electrons. Since 1973 she is a member of the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where since 1993 she manages the Group of low energy electron microscopy and since 1999 also the Department of electron optics. She has delivered plenty of invited talks at international congresses and conferences and at foreign universities, and also passed multiple stays abroad, from which longest were the altogether one year lasting stay at The University of Toyama (Japan) and a similar stay at The University of York (UK). The cooperation with The University of York resulted in design and development of an innovative miniature electron microscope with slow electrons (EU and US patent).

For a long time she is engaged in the scanning electron microscopy with slow and very slow electrons as regards its use in surface physics as well as concerns the electron optical issues of beam formation and signal detection. She has supervised plenty of diploma and dissertation theses. In 2000 she was a member of the organization board and secretary of the 12th European congress on electron microscopy in Brno. Between 1989 and 2006 she organized ten international seminars on surface physics and charged particle optics. She is the founder of the regular schools on fundamentals of electron microscopy, organized by the institute. She is a member of the Branch board at the Faculty of electrical engineering and communication of BUT. She is also author and co-author of approx. 300 reviewed papers and original contributions to international conferences, including three parts of monographs and 50 papers in impacted journals that have been 365 times cited. She was awarded by the Japan Institute of Metals and the International Metalographic Society.