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Matthew Huber

Matthew Huber is a paleoclimate scientist and professor at Purdue University who directs its Institute for a Sustainable Future and studies Eocene greenhouse climates and heat stress.

Matthew J. Fouch

Matthew J. Fouch is an American geophysicist known for seismic imaging of the lithosphere and upper mantle, who received the 2006 PECASE award while at Arizona State University.

Matthew J. Holman

Matthew J. Holman is an American astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, credited with discovering moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Matthew J. Menne

Matthew J. Menne is an American NOAA physical scientist in Asheville, North Carolina, known for building the U.S. surface temperature record and winning a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award.

Matthew J. Paszek

Matthew J. Paszek is a biological physicist at Cornell University who studies the mechanobiology of the cellular glycocalyx and received an NIH New Innovator Award in 2015.

Matthew J. Rosseinsky

Matthew J. Rosseinsky is a materials chemist, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry since 1999, and Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Liverpool, working on solid-state and computational materials discovery.

Matthew Kirwan

Matthew Kirwan is a coastal wetland scientist and eco-geomorphologist who is Professor and Chair of Coastal & Ocean Processes at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

Matthew P. A. Fisher

Matthew P. A. Fisher, born 1960, is a condensed matter physicist and professor at UC Santa Barbara known for deconfined quantum criticality and strongly correlated electrons.

Matthew Powner

Matthew W. Powner (born 1981) is a British organic chemist and Professor at University College London whose 2009 Nature paper synthesized activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides under prebiotically plausible conditions.

Matthew R. Bate

Matthew R. Bate (born 1969) is a New Zealand numerical astrophysicist at the University of Exeter who simulates the formation of stars, brown dwarfs, and planets.

Matthew Rabin

Matthew Rabin is a behavioral economist, the Pershing Square Professor at Harvard, known for a 1999 model of procrastination and the 2000 calibration theorem on risk aversion.

Matthew Rodell

Matthew Rodell is a hydrologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who measures groundwater depletion from orbit using GRACE satellites and leads the Global Land Data Assimilation System.

Matthew S. Platz

Matthew S. Platz, born 1951, is an American physical organic chemist, Emeritus Professor at Ohio State, known for time-resolved studies of carbenes and nitrenes, short-lived reactive intermediates.

Matthew S. Sigman

Matthew S. Sigman is an American organic chemist at the University of Utah, a Distinguished Professor known for enantioselective catalysis and machine-learning models of reaction selectivity.

Matthew Tirrell

Matthew Tirrell is an American polymer scientist who founded the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and led it as dean from 2011 to 2023.

Matthew W. Kanan

Matthew W. Kanan is a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University who directed the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy from 2019 to 2025, working on CO2 conversion.

Matthias Arenz

Matthias Arenz, born 1973 in Aachen, Germany, is a German physical chemist and professor at the University of Bern known for benchmarking high-surface-area electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells and electrolyzers.

Matthias Batzill

Matthias Batzill is a professor of physics at the University of South Florida in Tampa who studies metal-oxide surfaces for photocatalysis and gas sensing, and graphene and other two-dimensional materials.

Matthias Beller

Matthias Beller, born 1962, is a German chemist known for homogeneous catalysis research in carbonylation and hydrogenation, and for leading the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Rostock.

Matthias Drieß

Matthias Drieß, born 1961 in Eisenach, is a German inorganic and materials chemist who heads the metalorganic chemistry chair at Technische Universität Berlin and studies heavier main-group elements.

Matthias Ernzerhof

Matthias Ernzerhof is a theoretical chemist and professeur titulaire at the Université de Montréal, co-developer of the PBE functional of 1996 and the HSE hybrid functional of 2003.

Matthias Rief

Matthias Rief is a physicist and Full Professor at the Technical University of Munich who leads its Chair of Molecular Biophysics, known for single-molecule force spectroscopy of protein folding.

Matthias Scheffler

Matthias Scheffler, born 1951 in Berlin, is a German theoretical physicist known for work on density-functional theory and for directing the NOMAD Laboratory at the Fritz Haber Institute.

Matthias Schindler

Matthias Schindler is a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of South Carolina who uses effective field theories to study hadronic parity violation, earning a 2013 DOE Early Career Award.

Matthias Selbach

Matthias Selbach (born 1971) is a German proteomics researcher who leads the Proteome Dynamics group at the Max Delbrück Center and is a professor at the Charité in Berlin.

Matthias Troyer

Matthias Troyer is an Austrian computational physicist, ETH Zurich professor from 1998 to 2019, known for the ALPS libraries and the sign problem, now Technical Fellow at Microsoft Quantum.

Matthias Vojta

Matthias Vojta is a German theoretical condensed-matter physicist, professor at TU Dresden since 2010, known for work on quantum phase transitions, strongly correlated electron systems, and frustrated magnetism.

Matthias Wagner

Matthias Wagner is a German inorganic and materials chemist who has been a full professor at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2000, known for boron-doped molecules for organic electronics.

Maura Hagan

Maura Hagan is an American space physicist known for her work on solar atmospheric tides and for developing the Global Scale Wave Model at NCAR.

Maura McLaughlin

Maura McLaughlin is an American astrophysicist and professor at West Virginia University who co-discovered rotating radio transients, the first fast radio burst, and evidence of a gravitational-wave background.