Matthew Gebbie received his Ph.D. in Materials from UC Santa Barbara in 2016, where he was a 2011–2015 Science and Engineering Fellow in the NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society. Working with Prof. Jacob Israelachvili, Matt led research that bridged colloid science and electrochemistry to progress a molecular-level understanding of how electrostatic correlations govern the properties of ionic liquids and underwater peptide-based adhesives.
Matt was a 2016–2018 GLAM Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, where he worked with Prof. Nicholas Melosh to tackle fundamental questions surrounding nanoscale nucleation and growth, create fluorescent diamond nanomaterials for molecular sensing, and design diamond-based materials to enhance energy interfaces.