Muller has been listed as a team member of the
ABC television program
Catalyst since 2008. During his PhD program, he taught at a tutoring company, where he became the full-time Science Head after completing his PhD in 2008. He quit the job at the end of 2010. or hiking, discussing general topics with a scientific and educational perspective. 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. He presented the documentary ''
Uranium – Twisting the Dragon's Tail'', which aired in July–August 2015 on several public television stations around the world and won the
Eureka Prize for Science Journalism. On 21 September 2015, Muller hosted the
Google Science Fair Awards Celebration for that year. Muller has also won the Australian Department of Innovation Nanotechnology Film Competition and the 2013 Australian Webstream Award for "Best Educational & Lifestyle Series". Starting in April 2017, he appeared as a correspondent on the Netflix series
Bill Nye Saves the World. Muller presented in the film
Vitamania: The Sense and Nonsense of Vitamins, a documentary by Genepool Productions, released in August 2018. The film answers questions about vitamins and the use of dietary vitamin supplements. Muller's works have been featured in
Scientific American,
Wired,
Gizmodo, and
i09.
Veritasium and other YouTube channels In January 2011, Muller created the educational science channel
Veritasium on
YouTube, the focus of which is "addressing counter-intuitive concepts in science, usually beginning by discussing ideas with members of the public". The videos range in style from interviews with experts, such as 2011 Physics Nobel Laureate
Brian Schmidt, to science experiments, dramatisations, songs, anda hallmark of the channel
interviews with the public to uncover misconceptions about science. The name
Veritasium is a combination of the
Latin word for truth,
Veritas, and the suffix common to many elements,
-ium. This creates
Veritasium, an "element of truth", a play on the popular phrase and a reference to
chemical elements. In its logo, which has been a registered
trade mark since 2016, the number "42.0" resembles an element on the periodic table. The number was chosen because it is "
The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything" in
Douglas Adams' famous novel ''
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In 2017, Muller began uploading videos on his newest channel, Sciencium
, which is dedicated to videos on recent and historical discoveries in science. In 2021, Muller hosted Pindrop
, a YouTube Original series exploring unusual places around the world, as seen from Google Earth. Only one episode exploring potash evaporation ponds in Utah was released before YouTube cancelled all original production in 2022. As of 21April2023, Veritasium'' is majority-owned by the
private equity media company Electrify.
Reception Veritasium videos have received critical acclaim. Two early successful
Veritasium videos demonstrate the physics of a falling
Slinky toy. At the 2012
Science Online conference, the video "Mission Possible: Graphene" won the Cyberscreen Science Film Festival, In May 2025, the video on
PFAS, named
How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet, was awarded the 2025
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award. ==Personal life and family==