Derek Muller is a well-known Canadian-Australian inventor, television personality, filmmaker, science communicator, and YouTuber who is known for his channel Veritasium. He has also appeared as a correspondent on the Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World. He is 39 years old and was born on November 9, 1982 in Traralgon, Victoria, Australia. He studied at Queen's University and continued his studies at the University of Sydney.
In 2011, he started his own YouTube channel, which has over 8.5 million subscribers. His videos cover a variety of topics, including scientific experiments and cinematography. He has also partnered with other popular science YouTubers, such as Vsauce, Minute Physics, and Science Girl.
He is currently married to Raquel Nuno, a planetary scientist. The couple is based in Los Angeles, California. According to the couple's website, they have been together for nine years. The couple shares two daughters.
Muller has been an advocate of the idea that science should be accessible to everyone. He has created videos that are aimed at making complex scientific concepts easier to understand. His videos have received critical acclaim. One of his early videos, in which he demonstrates the physics of a falling Slinky toy, won the 2012 Science Online video contest.
Muller has also a second YouTube channel, titled 2Veritasium, which is dedicated to videos on historical and recent discoveries in science. He has also written a book titled, Science Made Simple: The Art of Explaining the Unknown.
