Matt graduated from the University of Nottingham with 1st in Chemistry (MSci) in 2017. During his undergraduate studies he completed an Industrial Placement Year at Evotec Ltd working as Medicinal Chemist and completed his Masters Project with Professor Neil Thomas working on the synthesis of a library of InhA Inhibitors targeting mycobacterium TB. Following this he took a position in industry as a Medicinal Chemist at Charles River for 2 years working on hit-to-lead and lead expansion projects. He returned to academia in 2019 to compete his PhD at Imperial College London with Professor Mimi Hii as part of the Next Generation Synthesis and Reaction Technology CDT, working on the Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Chiral Amines in Flow, sponsored by BASF. He then competed a Post Doctoral position in the same group, scaling up his PhD research from 1 to 100 grams. In 2024 he joined Dr Adam Clayton as a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, working on the Self-Optimisation of Chemoenzymatic Cascades in Flow.