Matthew J Derry joined the Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry (CEAC) department in December 2019 as a Lecturer in Chemistry and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2024. Before joining Aston University he studied for his MChem degree in Chemistry with a Year in Industry at the University of York in 2012. This was followed by an industrially-funded PhD in Polymer Chemistry at the University of Sheffield. He then continued at the University of Sheffield as a Research Associate from 2016 to 2019. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society.