Born and raised in Epsom, on the outskirts of London, Matthew Kenworthy
received his PhD in Astronomical Instrumentation from the University of
Cambridge in 1999 under the supervision of Ian Parry.  He moved to the
Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics at Steward Obsrvatory in Tucson,
Arizona, for two years before moving to the University of Cincinnati for
a postdoc position with Margaret Hanson.  The lure of instrumentation
proved to be too strong, hovever, and he moved back to Steward
Observatory to become Instrument Scientist for the world's first
deformable secondary mirror adaptive optic system from 2003 to 2007.

In 2007 he became an Assistant Astronomer at Steward Observatory,
involved in thermal imaging and searches for extrasolar planets.  He
uses a combination of coronagraphic optics, point spread function
modeling and other various techniques in a quest to look closer in to
the bright halos of star images to search for signs of companion
planets.

In 2010 he moved over to the Netherlands to take up an Assisant
Professor position at Leiden Observatory.