Dr. Matthew Ritchie received an MSci degree in physics from The University of Nottingham, in 2008. Following this he completed an Eng.D degree at University College London (UCL), in association with Thales U.K., in 2013. He continued at UCL as a postdoctoral research associate focusing on machine learning applied to multi-static radar for micro-Doppler classification.

In 2017 Dr. Ritchie took a Senior Radar Scientist position at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratories (Dstl) which also involved working as the Team Leader for the Radar Sensing group in the Cyber and Information Systems Division. During his time at Dstl he worked on a broad range of cutting edge RF sensing challenges collaborating with both industry and academia. As of 2018 he has now taken a lectureship role at UCL within the Radar Sensing group. He is now a Associate Professor at UCL with a team of 4 postdoctoral research fellows and 8 PhDs.

He has served as the Chair of the IEEE Aerospace and System Society (AESS) for the United Kingdom & Ireland and is an active member of the AESS Radar Systems Panel. He is currently a Associate Editor for the Radar Systems area for IEEE TAES and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was awarded a 5 year Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship in collaboration with Leonardo UK in 2023.