He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge's St. Catherine's College. He was in theater with Rachel Weisz as an undergraduate and dated her. He stayed in Cambridge to pursue a PhD in solid state physics, with a thesis titled Novel quantum effects in low-temperature quasi-zero-dimensional mesoscopic electron systems. In 1992 he moved to London to work with Richard P. Stanley at the University of London. There he began to study random matrix theory, a field that has become very popular in statistical physics. In 2004 he returned to Israel where he is a senior researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research focuses on the behavior of electrons in disordered solids and how this affects their physical properties, in particular their resistance to electrical current. He has published more than 250 articles in scientific journals and books, many co-authored with his former students and postdocs. He is one of the founders of the field of mesoscopic physics and can be credited with developing much of its modern framework. He is also known for his work on random matrix theory, which has found applications in many areas of science and technology. Miller was born on January 4th, 1960 in Jerusalem, Israel. His father was a physicist who worked on the Israeli nuclear program before it became public knowledge. His mother was from a wealthy family who owned a sugar plantation in Cuba.