Dr Mat Hickman

Education Project Manager

Mat Hickman joined Nowgen in April 2011 as the Education Project Manager within the Public Programmes Team. Mat takes care of the day-to-day management of a number of Nowgen’s school education projects and his main challenge is to enliven science teaching with updates from contemporary research.                             

Mat has a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Bristol, where he used viruses to investigate some of the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases, in particular Huntington’s disease.

He moved away from research to work in public engagement in 2009, working with science centres on a variety of projects, from staff training to hands-on nanotechnology kits. 

For more information on Nowgen’s education programmes please contact Mat on mat.hickman@cmft.nhs.uk or phone 0161 276 8947.