Prof. Dr. Moritz Müller is a scientist and founder working at the intersection of environmental research and geospatial technology in Malaysian Borneo. He heads the Aquatic and Environmental Sciences (AquES) Research Group at Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus in Kuching. His research spans tropical peatland carbon, blackwater rivers and greenhouse gas emissions, mangrove remote sensing, environmental monitoring, and human-wildlife coexistence. He has supervised more than 20 graduates, secured over AUD 10 million in research funding, and collaborates closely with partners including CSIRO, the University of Bremen and UNIMAS. In 2023 he founded Saraqube Sdn Bhd together with A/P Jacey Minoi and A/P Aazani Mujahid from UNIMAS. Saraqube is a Kuching-based geospatial technology company that turns satellite, drone and field data into decision-ready maps and monitoring dashboards for coastal and forest resources. Saraqube has mapped 12.4 million hectares of Sarawak, tracked 400,000 hectares of mangroves across Sabah and Sarawak from 1988 to 2025, and delivered commissioned work for government, international development and scientific clients, including the UK FCDO Evidence Fund. The company is now building a satellite-based carbon measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) service for tropical ecosystems and oil palm landscapes, aimed at carbon project developers and EUDR and MSPO compliance. His work sits squarely within Sarawak’s digital economy ambitions: using open Earth observation data, drones and analytics to make environmental monitoring affordable, repeatable and locally owned. On the IDECS 2026 startup panel he brings the perspective of a researcher who has crossed into entrepreneurship, and the lessons learned from commercialising science in a frontier market.