Matthew is a Lecturer in the discipline of Psychology at the Graduate School of Health and Faculty of Health.

He is an internationally recognised cognitive neuroscientist and early-career researcher specialising in the neuroscience of consciousness. His research interests span how changes in brain activity, structure and function impact our behaviour and subjective experience. He is an expert in experimental psychology and electroencephalography (EEG), receiving his PhD from Monash University, and completing two post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford (UK) and University of Sydney.

As a postdoc at the University of Oxford his research investigated human-decision making using brain-computer-interfaces and human-machine teaming. Recently, at the University of Sydney, he developed a wireless virtual reality and mobile-EEG protocol for testing active perception while walking in naturalistic environments.

His research has been published in numerous prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, eLife, NeuroImage and PLOS Biology, and has reached a large national audience through plain-language summaries and appearances on public and commercial radio.

His current research focus is at the intersection of active-perception and virtual-reality, with a focus on dynamic changes in perception that occur within the stride-cycle.

At UTS, he is the subject coordinator for Research Methods in Psychology, in both the Undergraduate and Graduate Psychology programs.