Dr Matthew Tam received his PhD from the University of Newcastle (Australia) where he was a member of the Centre for Computer-assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications (CARMA). His thesis was titled “Iterative projection and reflection methods: theory and practice”. After his PhD, he moved to the University of Göttingen where he was a post-doctoral researcher supported first by the Germany Research Foundation Research Training Group “Discovering structure in complex data: Statistics meets Optimization and Inverse Problems” and later by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Before joining the University of Melbourne in 2020, he was a Junior Professor for Mathematical Optimisation in the Institute for Numerical and Applied Mathematics at the University of Göttingen and a member of the Continuous Optimisation, Variational Analysis and Inverse Problems workgroup.