Matthew Hancock's Biography

Matthew Hancock, Managing Engineer, Veryst Engineering, LLC

Matthew Hancock received his Ph.D. in Environmental Fluid Mechanics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. Since then he has worked in academic, medical, and industrial settings, both as project lead and as model-based engineering consultant. He is currently a managing engineer with Veryst Engineering, LLC, and consults primarily in fluid mechanics related to product design and performance, with core areas including microfluidics, surface tension and wetting, heat transfer, species transport, and mixing. Prior to joining Veryst, he worked with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard designing and modeling microfluidic devices for genomics and diagnostics applications, the Wyss Institute of Harvard University modeling fluid flow and heat transfer in bioinspired cooling systems, the Pennsylvania State University modeling the wetting and fluid flow near textured surfaces, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School designing and modeling microfluidic devices for tissue engineering, and as an instructor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Hancock has co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed research articles in journals such as Nature Materials, Lab on a Chip, Small, and Biomaterials.