Matthew Terkel graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2016 with a degree in Chemical Engineering. The following year he worked in Sydney, Australia as a researcher in a complex fluids lab at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). In 2018 he joined the Biocolloids and fluids physics group in the Applied Physics department at the University of Granada (UGR). His thesis is focused on partical dynamics and rheological response of magnetorheological fluids under unsteady magnetic fields.