Matt is an independent consultant contributing to the MECS program via Gamos. He leads work on a range of modeling and quantitative analysis topics, including the costs of cooking, socio-economic impacts, and carbon credit methodologies. Matt has been researching and teaching on low-carbon decentralized energy systems since 1995 and continues as a part-time academic at the University of Surrey. He is a chartered engineer, with a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Southampton, an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, and a PhD in Energy Policy from Imperial.