Mathew completed his PhD in 2021 from the University of Birmingham, UK and completed a successful post-doc under the supervision of Dr Peter Lund. During this time, he developed his research interests towards understanding microbial stress in particular how bacteria adapt and respond to stress. 

Mathew’s expertise lies in laboratory automation, high throughput sequencing and functional genomic techniques such as transposon-directed insertion-site sequencing (TraDIS), which he applies to understand microbial stress. At KAUST, his current project involves utilizing these methodologies to investigate potentially whether adaptation towards stress specifically antimicrobial resistance differs within the scope of Klebsiella pneumoniae pangenome.