Matthew Perks
Senior Lecturer In Physical Geography at Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Perks is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography with nine years of academic experience and a PhD in Fluvial Geomorphology from Durham University. He researches fluvial geomorphology, aquatic pollution and habitat quality, and designs novel monitoring technologies to track transient hydrological and water-quality changes in temperate headwater catchments. His work blends field-scale innovation—low-cost sediment sensors, UAV/TLS surveying and flood hydraulic monitoring—with advanced data science using C++, MATLAB and Python. At Newcastle University he has led projects detecting subtle in-stream nutrient dynamics and characterizing hydro-geomorphological responses to flash floods. He is comfortable translating complex environmental processes into actionable monitoring networks and reproducible analyses. Colleagues describe him as a method-driven geomorphologist who bridges hands-on field experimentation with computational rigor.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Fluvial Geomorphology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Fluvial Geomorphology at University of Durham
Github Skills (9)
surface8
point-cloud7
cnc-controller7
ply6
computer-graphics6
aws5
3d-printing5
toolbox2
velocity2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CatchmentSci/GEO8026
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Repository containing the necessary files for GEO8026 (Data analysis for Geoscience) in the 2022/23 AY
Contributions:74 commits, 1 PR, 74 pushes in 1 year
CatchmentSci/Undergrad-Teaching
Dec 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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