His research focuses on challenges in heterogeneous and molecular catalysis with an emphasis on developing scalable CO2 utilization technologies. His group has invented “grain-boundary-rich” heterogeneous electro-catalysts for CO2 reduction to liquid fuels and carbonate-promoted C–H carboxylation reactions for commodity carboxylic acid synthesis. Matt was recently named one of the Talented 12 by Chemistry and Engineering News (2015), received the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2014), and was named a Dreyfus Environmental Postdoctoral Mentor (2012). Prior to Stanford, Matt was an NIH Postdoctoral Researcher in inorganic chemistry at MIT and completed his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Harvard in 2005. Matt studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Rice University. ​INVITED SPEAKERS