Derek Muller

Derek Alexander Muller is an Australianborn Canadian science communicator filmmaker and television personality who is best known for creating the YouTube channel Veritasium Dr Derek Muller is the creator of Veritasium a YouTube channel about science with over 8 million subscribers and almost a billion views winner of the Streamy award for Science or Education in 2017 He has hosted awardwinning documentaries Uranium Twisting the Dragons Tail Digits and Vitamania for international broadcast networks He was also a correspondent on Netflixs Bill Nye Saves the World and a host of the Australian science program Catalyst He has appeared live on stage with Neil deGrasse Tyson Michio Kaku Space station commander Chris Hadfield and cohosted the 2017 March for Science on the Washington Mall He kickstarted a magnetic moleculemaking kit called Snatoms which exceeded its funding goal in the first hour sold 10000 units and is now available on Amazon Muller completed a degree in Engineering Physics from Queens University in Canada and a PhD in physics education research at the University of Sydney His thesis topic was Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education