Background
Muller was born in Traralgon, a city in regional Victoria, Australia, and moved to Vancouver, Canada, when he was two.
Muller was born in Traralgon, a city in regional Victoria, Australia, and moved to Vancouver, Canada, when he was two.
In 2004, Muller graduated from Queen"s University in Ontario with a B.Sc in Engineering Physics and completed a Doctor of Philosophy in physics education research from the University of Sydney in 2008 with a thesis, Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education.
He is best known for creating the YouTube channel Veritasium. Muller has appeared as a television presenter on the Australian television program Catalyst since 2008. As of 25 February 2016 it had 232 video uploads, 3,606,670 subscribers according to youtube, but 3,270,871 according to socialblade, and 255,295,080 video views.
Muller"s works have been featured at Scientific American, Wired, Gizmodo, and i09.
Since 2011 Muller has continued to appear on Catalyst, reporting scientific stories from around the globe, and on Australian television network Ten as the "Why Guy" on the Breakfast program In May 2012, he gave a TEDxSydney talk using the subject of his thesis.
In July 2012, Muller created a second YouTube channel, 2veritasium. Muller uses the new platform to produce editorial based videos that discuss such topics as film making, viewer reactions to popular Veritasium.
As of 22 January 2016 the channel had 31 video uploads, 327,582 subscribers and 8,184,452 video views.
In 2015 he presented the documentary Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s Tail, which aired in July/August on several public television stations across the globe. On November 24, 2015, Muller revealed in a reddit "Ask Maine Anything" thread that he had recorded a podcast with Henry Reich of MinutePhysics, which was released on 26th November 2015. Muller is a Facebook critic, and has denounced the ability of one to buy likes for a Facebook page illegally from "like farms" or "click farms" in developing countries or pay Facebook to promote a page.
Muller has been listed as team member of the Australian television program Catalyst since 2008. In January 2011 Muller created the YouTube channel Veritasium, the focus of which is "addressing counter-intuitive concepts in science, usually beginning by discussing ideas with members of the public".