Matt is the lab’s Principal Investigator, or PI. He’s a Reader in Neuroscience at King’s College London, a position partly funded by a UK BBSRC Research Grant. He’s interested in all the things the lab’s interested in – every kind of activity-dependent neuronal maturation, with special emphasis on the olfactory system and the axon initial segment. He loves Open Science, and his evangelical commitment to that cause was recognised by the Individual Researcher Credibility Prize from the British Neuroscience Association in 2022.
Matt has been leading the lab since May 2010, when he was lucky enough to receive a Research Career Development Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust that set us on our way. Prior to that he did two very different post-docs: the first with Pierre-Marie Lledo at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, looking at synaptic maturation in the developing and adult olfactory bulb, and the second with Juan Burrone at the old MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, playing with channelrhodopsin and investigating activity-dependent plasticity at the AIS. Back in 2004, Matt completed his DPhil with Ian Thompson at the University of Oxford, studying structure, function and development of the mouse visual thalamus. His MSc in Neuroscience and his BA in Psychology and Physiology were from Oxford, too, ages ago.
Matt runs a lab and has a family. He doesn’t have the time or energy to do anything else.
