Contact Dr Matthew Healy

Areas of expertise

  • CBRN Focus Areas
  • Counter-IED
  • Test and Evaluation
  • Human Factors for Defence

Background

Matthew is Academic Director of the MoD CBRN Professional Education Program and Deputy Head of 成人抖阴 Forensic Institute Shrivenham,

Matthew started as an X-ray and accelerator physicist (and has been the profiled physicist in Physics World) but his remit has grown to encompass the wider issues of defence and security over two decades working with the military, the emergency services, government agencies and industry. His main technical field still encompasses nuclear and radiological weapons and security imaging, but extends across CBRN, IED's, surveillance, materials and forensics. Aspects to which he contributes include threat, planning, procurement and cost, response, forensic science, and policy.

Consultancy activities have included leading an SME team in a national CBRN detection procurement programme, developing search and interdiction methods and technologies, decision support following the Fukushima incident, performing CBRN vulnerability assessments for UK and foreign infrastructure, perf