Born, educated and graduated Masters of Engineering in Germany, Matthias worked in ITC education, at the University of Auckland, NZ (New Zealand) and for most of his professional life as a Senior Lecturer at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, NZ. Key areas of expertise are programming and data science, with a keen interest in natural sciences. Now retired, he contributes as a Volunteer Researcher at NMIT and works with the Health Environment International Trust NZ, developing and maintaining data systems and routines for processing meteorological, geographical and demographical data to estimate the impact of climate on human physiology.