Matthew graduated from Imperial College London in 2004 with an MSci in Chemistry and was co-awardee of the Neil Arnott prize for best chemistry graduate at the University of London. He subsequently obtained an MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing from the University of Oxford. From 2005 to 2008 he carried out a DPhil (PhD) at Oxford on nanomaterials for quantum computation, under the supervision of Prof. David Pettifor FRS. Following this, he carried out postdoctoral work on the prediction of crystal structures under Prof. Sarah Price FRS at University College London, including two years as a Ramsay Fellow. Matthew subsequently put his computational chemistry skills to use in the defence sector. He then joined the pharmaceutical industry as a senior scientist at Evotec in 2016, working to develop drug candidates for a wide variety of internal and external clients. Following a second stint in defence, he joined Cresset in 2022, working to develop, source, and evaluate new computational techniques for Cresset’s software. Matthew is a chartered chemist. He has published 22 scientific articles and has a h-index of 13.