Dr. Giel Muller
Dr. Giel Muller is a Dutch-American, education-focused lecturer in chemistry in the School of Science at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia where he lectures into and coordinates select First Year Chemistry subjects and second-year Food Chemistry.
His extensive background in teaching began in 2010 as a high school chemistry and physics teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area through Teach For America. Throughout his postgraduate studies, he demonstrated undergraduate laboratory classes and served as a teaching assistant at the University of San Francisco and the University of Melbourne.
On a more casual basis, he continues researching small, gas-phase molecules to inform reactivity in interstellar/circumstellar and combustion environments.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Melbourne, 2021
- M.S. Chemistry, University of San Francisco, 2015
- California Preliminary Secondary Teaching Credential in Chemistry, Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, 2011
- B.S. Chemistry, University of South Carolina, 2009 (+ exchange at University of Massachusetts, Boston)
AFFILIATIONS
- Wollongong Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence (WATTLE)
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- Out For Australia & Queers in Science
- Teach For America, 2010 San Francisco Bay Area Corps
- Royal Australian Chemical Society (RACI)
LINKS
Contact
- For University of Wollongong-related business: gmuller@uow.edu.au
Giel Muller, 2025