Dr. Matthew Allen – Educational resource developer (Cardiff Uni)

Mat is a resource developer and support scientist for the Faulkes Telescope project. He joined FT in 2016 to develop resources, with a special interest in Virtual Reality and 3D media. He completed his Masters in Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University, before going to work for the European Space Agency as a Young Graduate Trainee for a year on the Gaia mission. He then undertook a PhD at Cardiff University, specifically in studying how galaxies observed with the Herschel Space Observatory have evolved over the last 10 billion years!

He is currently a Project Manager for the UniverseLab project, part of a Wales-wide STEM education programme (Trio Sci Cymru), and Director of the Cardiff Science Festival.