He also holds an adjunct appointment in the Center for Quantitative Biology. He is a philosopher of biology, specializing in phylogenetic systematics. Matt got his PhD in Philosophy at the University of California, Davis, where he was also an affiliate member of the Center Population Biology. Prior to that he received an MSc in History and Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics, and double majored in Biology and Philosophy at Grinnell College. He became a philosopher of biology by refusing to ever choose between those two fields. Matt teaches a class at the Natural History Museum of Utah called, "How to Make a Mammoth and Engineer a Dinosaur," where students grow somewhat alarmed at how excited he gets each time they look at fossils in class. Here's his guest blog.