Summary
Matthew Hayman is a Project Scientist with nine years of hands-on experience designing and deploying optical remote sensing instruments for atmospheric research, based in Boulder, Colorado. He specializes in optical design, electromagnetic theory, and polarimetry, having led development and operations for lidar and airborne sensors including NCAR’s MPD, HOLODEC, GV-HSRL and LAMS. His work spans instrument hardware, algorithm development for noisy-signal retrievals with uncertainty quantification, and coordination of NSF field campaigns—bridging lab optics and operational fielding. Notably, he integrated full polarimetric capability into high-spectral-resolution lidar to probe oriented ice crystals and multiple scattering, a niche technical achievement that deepens aerosol and cloud microphysics insight.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Colorado at Boulder