Associate Professor Matthew Piggott completed his BSc and PhD at The University of Western Australia. After postdoctoral stints at The Australian National University and Boston College, he took up a lecturing position at the ANU in the Department of Chemistry. In 2005 Matthew moved to the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UWA.

Matthew was The Judges and People’s Choice Winner for the CO-ADD Chemistry Prize competition ran earlier this year. Matthew and his colleagues have submitted 2500 compounds to the CO-ADD open access screening programme.