Following two post-doctoral fellowships studying experimental biophysics at the Centre de Biochimie Structurale, in Montpellier, France, and at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, MD, Dr. Matthew Ferguson joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at Boise State University in late 2013. He earned his doctorate in physics from the University of Maryland and his bachelors of science in physics & mathematics from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.