Matt Andrews is the Director of NSF EPSCoR for the State of Nebraska and Professor in the School of Natural Resources at UNL. He is currently the P.I. on a $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant from the National Science Foundation. His career as a faculty member and P.I. began in the Department of Genetics at North Carolina State University where he was an Assistant and Associate Professor from 1987 to 2000. In 2000 he moved to the Department of Biology at the University of Minnesota Duluth where he served as Department Head, Director of Graduate Studies, Founding Director of the Bio-Translational Research Center, and McKnight Presidential Professor. In 2016 he moved to Corvallis, Oregon as the Executive Associate Dean in the College of Science at Oregon State University and faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. He arrived at UNL in 2019 and set-up his lab on the Nebraska Innovation Campus. His research program is centered on the genes, proteins and small molecules that regulate mammalian hibernation. His findings include hibernation strategies that can be applied to human health such as a novel therapy for hemorrhagic shock. Andrews has been funded by NIH, DARPA, U.S. Army Research Office, and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.