Dr Chris Matthews and Dr Kaye Price at the Indigenous STEM Professional Award ceremony. Photo: Gary Cranitch, Queensland Museum
Dr Chris Matthews from Griffith’s School of Environment has won the inaugural Indigenous STEM Professional Award presented by CSIRO and BHP Billiton Foundation this week.
The award recognises his work in engaging Indigenous students in science and mathematics. He brings maths to life by creating stories with characters that add, subtract or divide as well as teaching maths through dance and story.
Dr Matthews, a Noonuccal man, completed his PhD in applied mathematics at Griffith University.
Growing up, he says he always knew he had a talent for maths, but hid away from the teachers until high school where he discovered a love of computing.
“I saw the connection between computing and maths and when I did algebra it finally made sense to me,’’ he said.
As Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance and
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