Matt Lewis

Matt Lewis was born in 1974 in Bristol, England. He studied Marine Biology at University in Bangor, Wales, and then Aberdeen, Scotland. The Sudur Havid was his first deployment as a Scientific Observer – he went on to complete another deployment (without sinking) before moving on to a warmer, drier career. A decade and a half’s work in biology has taken Matt from Sabah to South Georgia to Canada to Kenya, allowing him to climb mountains, visit hospitals with rare tropical diseases, and learn to swear in Afrikaans.

He now lives in Aberdeen with his wife and two children, and runs his own business taking tropical bugs and reptiles into schools to encourage children to be interested in wildlife and conservation.