Research summary: Matt is an applied biostratigrapher with 30 years industrial experience. Matt provided advice across the entirety of BG Groups portfolio. This covered project planning, management, delivery, and additional interpretation of biostratigraphical and chemostratigraphical data from external consultants.  Matt has worked Devonian through Pleistocene globally for new ventures, exploration, field appraisal, development and management including well-site biostratigraphy. 

Matt was involved in various industrially funded research projects at BG Group developing biostratigraphical interpretation software (several papers published using such techniques), palynofacies models in turbidites and supervised two M.Sc. and four Ph.D. students. 

Matt provided internal training courses for both geoscientists (biostratigraphy) and non-geoscientists (Upstream Basics; a three-day classroom and field-based course for non-geoscience staff introducing them to exploration, development and production geosciences). 

Matt left BG following the takeover by Shell and set up his own consultancy and mixes this work with academic research including being a member of the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society, London.