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About Tom Muller
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THOMAS E. MULLER was raised in a multicultural environment and learned to speak and read six languages. Born in Nairobi, Kenya---to Czech parents---and educated in Kenya, Iran, Britain and Canada, he ended up living in eight countries on five continents.

It was this exposure that led Tom to realize how precious little of their own planet humans had experienced---its citizens, lands, its cultures and history, and especially the diversity of its physical features and natural environments created by these features. He decided to do something about it. Push yourself to really know and appreciate the Earth; that became his message via this website.

Admitted to the Travelers' Century Club: www.travelerscenturyclub.org , he has,
to date, immersed himself in the seven continents and traveled to 269 of the 872 countries, overseas territories, autonomous regions, island groups, and major political divisions listed on the website: www.MostTraveledPeople.com . On that website, he ranks as Australia's 4th most traveled person. Tom was the runner up in the 2008 Get Up & Go Award for Australia's Most Adventurous Traveller. See the magazine article at: http://www.getupandgo.net.au/08_award_winner.html

Now in his fourth career, Tom writes for travel magazines
and periodicals whose readers are primarily seniors and
aging Baby Boomers. He divides his time between
Australia and Canada, and when he's not writing he is
somewhere far from home, learning about a new location
and forming impressions for a future book. Occasionally,
Tom visits schools during his travels in various countries
to give the local children an illustrated talk on his adventures.

Tom trained in experimental cognitive psychology and
mathematical statistics and was a professor of consumer
psychology for 25 years in Canada, Australia, and Japan.

His Ph.D. is from the University of British Columbia, and his Masters
degree from Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, Canada. He is
the co-author of a book (published in four editions) on the study of
consumer behavior and has written 80 articles for scientific journals
and books. Interviews about his research on the Baby Boomer
generation in Canada, the U.S. and Australia were aired on
Canadian and Australian network television and radio, and were
reported in many newspaper and magazine write-ups.

He was cited for excellence in teaching on several occasions throughout his university career. In Canada, Tom taught at the University of British Columbia, Concordia University, the University of Guelph, and McMaster University. In Australia, he was a chaired professor at Griffith University, and in Japan, the Distinguished Professor of Consumer Psychology, at Hagoromo University of International Studies.

Tom retired from academia, at age 64, to devote more time to his passion for adventure travel to the Earth's remotest and least accessible regions---the geographic North Pole, Arctic Ocean, Siberia, Franz Josef Land, northern Alaska, Canada's Far North and Ellesmere Island, Northern Greenland, the Southern Ocean, the Ross Sea section of Antarctica, Australia's and New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands, Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and the Antarctic Peninsula.

Tom’s other interests are observing the
behaviors and customs of different national
cultures. His preferred physical environments
are mountains and coral reefs, thus he is
keen on climbing, alpine skiing, and scuba
diving. He is married to a Japanese aged-care
nurse and they have a 13-year-old son, born
in Australia. They live in Runaway Bay,
Queensland, a suburb of Gold Coast. Tom
also has a 39-year-old Canadian daughter,
born in Persia, who is a lawyer practicing in
Vancouver and mother of two young children.
Tom's mother, sister, and brother also live in
British Columbia.