Dr Mat Tata

Dr Mathew Tata is a Project Manager at Vitae. As a key contact for the member community across the world, he works at all levels to engage them in Vitae initiatives, consultations, and events. He advocates for the development of researchers and leads on the co-production of new resources and engagement activities. Passionate about improving research culture, he facilitates topic-based working groups collaborative networks, including the UK Research Staff Association. Before joining Vitae, Mathew was a postdoctoral researcher in cell and molecular biology at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. In this time, Mathew chaired both the university- and national postdoc associations, as well as serving as a board member in the international researcher advocacy NGO 'Eurodoc'. He is particularly motivated by resolving precarity and advancing EDI in the research system, and champions researcher development as a means to enabling positive wellbeing and fulfilling careers for researchers