Dr Matt Owers (B.Sc. (Advanced Physics, hons. class I) University of Wollongong 2003, Ph.D University of New South Wales 2008)  is an Associate Professor at Macquarie. Previously, he held a Future Fellowship (2015-2019), a Super Science Fellowship at the Australian Astronomical Observatory (2011-2014), and a postdoctoral research position at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology (2008-2011).

He is the Course Director for the Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics Majors, has supervised 4 HDR students to completion (1 PhD and 3 MRes as principal supervisor) and currently supervises 2 PhD students. He teaches and convenes two upper-level units in Astrophysics: ASTR3110 "Data Science Techniques in Astrophysics" and ASTR7913 "Contemporary Research Techniques in Astrophysics", as well as convening the Faculty Capstone unit FOSE3000 "Making Science Work for You and Society: Capstone".

Broadly, Dr Owers' research interests are in the field of galaxy evolution, and how the large-scale environment impacts the properties of galaxies. He is involved in several large Australian surveys, including the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (http://www.gama-survey.org), the SAMI Galaxy Survey (https://sami-survey.org), as well as planned surveys such as WAVES (https://wavesurvey.org) and Hector (https://hector.survey.org.au/).