ProfessorDietmar Muller

PhD SIO/UCSD, FAA, FAGU

Dietmar Müller received his undergraduate degree from the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany, followed by a PhD in Earth Science from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, in 1993. After joining the University of Sydney as a Lecturer in Geophysics in 1993, he established the University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science (now the Marine Studies Institute) and built the EarthByte research group. He held an ARC Laureate Fellowship from 2009 to 2014 and led theARC Basin GENESIS HubITRPfrom 2015 to 2021, the STELLAR industry project on critical mineral exploration from 2021 to 2024 and is a Web of Science highly cited researcher.

Müller's funding record includes recent grants from the ARC Discovery, Linkage and Laureate Fellowship schemes ($3.95M), NCRIS ($2.1M), SIEF ($12M), AISRF ($300k), and industry funding (12.4 Mio) including the ARC Basin GENESIS HubITRP(2015-2021). From 2017-2018 he also served as Director of the Sydney Informatics Hub.