Rate My Professor Paul Muir

Muir's influence extends through his scholarly contributions to physics pedagogy. He is a co-author of the textbook 'Introduction to Biological Physics for the Health and Life Sciences,' published in its second edition in 2019 by John Wiley & Sons. Collaborating with Kirsten Franklin, Terry Scott, Lara Wilcocks, Paul Yates, and fellow Department of Physics staff, this comprehensive volume equips students in medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy, and life sciences with biophysical principles. Additionally, Muir co-authored 'First-year physics and high school outreach at Otago' (Squire, J., Muir, P., & Blakie, B., 2021), published in the Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute of Physics (NZIP) & Physikos Conference. His creative support for research includes producing illustrations for space physics studies, such as visualizations of solar flare impacts on ionospheric propagation and aviation. Muir also participates in public science outreach, including the University of Otago Physics Department's organization of New Zealand's first science festival in Niue in 2023.