Matt was born and raised in beautiful Buffalo, New York where he developed a love for the Bills, Sabres, wings, and Canada. As an undergraduate, he worked in the Wolczanski Lab at Cornell University and cultivated a deep appreciation for organometallic chemistry while working on the oxidative addition of alkyl halides across Ta(silox)3 and the synthesis of first row transition metal complexes supported by macrocyclic β-diketiminate platforms. Matt continued his studies at MIT and earned his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry under the advising of Dan Nocera. During this time his research efforts were primarily focused on the reactivity of first row transition metal oxo complexes within a tris-alkoxide ancillary ligand environment, but he also dabbled in aspects of the photochemical splitting of hydrohalic acids. Prior to arriving at UNC, Matt spent two years working in Paris within the laboratory of Professor Marc Fontecave at the Collège de France where his worked on the development of catalytic platforms for the reduction of carbon dioxide as well as immobilization of said catalysts within metal-organic frameworks. Within the Miller group, he is now contributing to mechanistic studies of photo-hydridic platforms.