Matt is a mathematician, turned solar physicist, turned systems engineer in space weather resilience. After starting his career in mathematics, an existential crisis about the world’s existential precarity led to his redirection towards low-probability, high-impact risks, and how to mitigate them. Matt has since worked in research and development for space weather and other natural hazard risk mitigation in the nuclear energy and space sectors and is looking for other ways to avert other neglected risks as humanity enters the next era of technological development. Space weather is a poorly understood hazard that could cause catastrophe if not effectively mitigated. The Carrington event of 1859 was the largest geomagnetic storm in history, far larger than those of the modern era. Modern technology, including the now thousands of operating satellites providing essential services from space, has not been tested under extreme space weather.
