Matthew graduated with a PhD in Biological Sciences from The University of Auckland in 2005, with his thesis research focusing on the importance of a mother’s diet during gestation and lactation on the risk of type-2 diabetes in her offspring. Since 2001 he has worked for AgResearch Limited, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute (CRI), as a Research Associate, FRST Postdoc, and Research Scientist. He was part of the Nutrigenomics New Zealand collaboration from 2004-2014, working to understand how our diet and genome interact to influence health with a particular focus on intestinal function. He is still working for AgResearch, but is now based at the Liggins Institute (University of Auckland), where he is involved in studying the effects of agricultural food products on human health.