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Some Lesser Known Facts About Derek Muller

• Derek Muller’s parents are originally from South Africa.

• He was born in Australia where the family shifted, as his father got a job as an engineer at a paper and pulp company.

• He acted as Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol on stage when he was 11.
  

  Derek Muller (circled) as Tiny Tim in a play

• He received the Governor General Bronze Academic Medal for academic excellence as he was the top student among the 425 International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma graduates.

• He wished to be a filmmaker but did not choose that option as there is no defined academic or career path.

• He received the chancellor’s scholarship for all the years (2000-2004) of his engineering graduation at the Queen’s University in Canada.

• He created two documentary films for the drama department of Queen’s University in 2003-2004.

• He graduated at an average of 90 per cent, in the top 15th position among the 625 engineering graduates.

• He received the Australian Postgraduate Award, a scholarship given to students with exceptional research potential.

• He was the Physics Laboratory Demonstrator and Tutor in second-year computational and experimental labs at the University of Sydney.

• During his research training (2005-2008) at the University of Sydney, he was the first author to publish five papers in internationally refereed journals and seven papers in internationally refereed conference proceedings.

• His dissertation was on Designing Effective Multimedia For Physics Education.

• He was the project coordinator for facilitating a grant to make multimedia for high school physics topics.

• He created films for the physics modules of Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) Examinations and distributed the DVDs across schools in Australia.

• He worked as a Physics teacher (2006-2013) for grade 11 and 12 students at Matrix Education, Sydney. He developed teaching resources and educational videos for teaching the students.

• He has been the creative director and CEO of Thought Works, Sydney since 2010, creating the first YouTube channel Veritasium and providing educational consultancy.

• He coined the name Veritasium to mean an element of truth by combining the Latin word, veritas (truth) and -ium, the suffix for a metal element.

• He has two other YouTube channels, 2Veritasium (an isotope of truth) and Sciencium (an element of knowledge).

• Veritasium has a subscriber base of more than 15 million (as of Aril, 2024)

• He was also the Head of Science at the same institution from 2008 to 2012. He implemented a new CRM database and was also responsible for the marketing.

• He was popular as a researcher and presenter of the Why Guy segment of the Breakfast program aired on Channel Ten.

• Derek was the speaker at the TED@Sydney in 2012 and TEDxSyney in 2013.
  

  Derek Muller at TEDxSydney 2013

• He was also the keynote speaker and host at several conferences and education summits.

• He was one of the three hosts of Catalyst on The Road, a television series in 2013.

• He was an engineering expert, researcher, and presenter about ancient Egypt, monuments, and technology on a program called Ancient Impossible by Wild Dream Films broadcast on History Channel in 2014.

• He was the researcher, writer, and host of the award-winning documentary series, Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s Tail (2015), broadcast on PBS Network.
  

  Derek Muller on the poster of the documentary Uranium Twisting the Dragon’s Tail

• In 2015, Derek Muller hosted a backstage show live before the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

• He was featured on the BBC Show, QI, and Discovery television show, You Have Been Warned.

• He is also the founder of Snatoms, a teacher’s aid and a learning resource containing magnetic atoms that can be put together to form various shapes of molecules.
  

  Derek Muller with the Snatoms

• He likes the pistachio flavour or a rocky road in ice cream.