Interview with Berndt M ller, James B. Duke Professor of Physics at Duke University. The interview begins with M ller discussing his current work on quark-gluon plasma physics and the connections between nuclear physics and cosmology. M ller then recounts his family history in Germany during and after WWII, as well as his childhood in West Germany. He recalls his undergraduate studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, where it was the inspiring lectures that catalyzed his enthusiasm for physics. M ller explains the heavy ion research he was involved in at the time, as well as his masters thesis on the Dirac equation. He recounts his first visit to Berkeley Lab in 1972 and his subsequent acceptance of a postdoc at University of Washington and a fellowship at Yale. M ller then returned to Frankfurt as an associate professor and explains how he got involved in quark-gluon plasma research. M ller talks about the creation of the RHIC and how that led him to pursue his next job in the US, landing at Duke. He discusses his involvement with the Institute of Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington, as well as his work at Brookhaven over the years. M ller recalls the pros and cons of the administrative side of academia, which he experienced as the Chair of the Faculty of Physics and then Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Duke. The interview concludes with M llers reflections on winning the Feshbach Prize and his predictions for the future of theoretical nuclear physics.