Matt concluded his PhD research in engineering quantum systems using diamond-based nanotechnologies, in addition to Masters and Bachelors degrees in physics. He is a Co-founder and CEO of Redback Systems – a spin off company working to commercialise spectroscopy technologies utilised in his PhD. Matt and the Redback Systems team have participated in CSIRO’s ON Prime program, and will shortly commence ON Accelerate. This project is Matt’s second business venture, he is also Co-founder and Director of Fire Code Australia – a software as a service company providing small-scale bushfire modelling to the bushfire risk assessment community.