Jermey N.A. Matthews, Ph.D.

Original content strategy and publishing frameworks for experts with a core message or methodology—from academics to consultants to B2B leaders—looking to improve the reach, impact, and performance of all their published assets.

Two media businesses built from scratch (both now retired).

Shaping flagship thought leadership for McKinsey's Life Sciences practice — editing and ghostwriting primarily for senior partners across pharma, biotech, medtech, and animal health.

• Sep 15, 2026Backbones and networks: A blueprint for the biopharma plant of the future (Life Sciences / Operations)
• Jun 25, 2026How companies can strengthen their geopolitical risk readiness (Risk & Resilience)
• Jun 29, 2026From linear gates to learning loops: Rewiring biopharma R&D with AI (Life Sciences / QuantumBlack)
• May 01, 2026Targeted and timely: Curating aesthetic care for GLP-1 patients (Life Sciences)
• Apr 2026Shaping the future of Japan's pharmaceutical operations (Report)
• Feb 27, 2026Fundamentals first: Closing medtech's value creation gap (Life Sciences)
• Jan 14, 2026Capturing value from customer-centric medtech services (Life Sciences)
• Jan 2026Growth, strategy, and the next chapter in life sciences (The Synthesis)
• Dec 11, 2025Clear, credible, compelling: Mastering investor engagement in life sciences (Life Sciences)
• Aug 2025Rewiring pharma's regulatory submissions with AI and zero-based design
• Jun 2025Pulse check: Key trends shaping biopharma dealmaking in 2025
• May 2025Scaling gen AI in the medtech industry
• Mar 2025Simplification for success: Rewiring the biopharma operating model
• Feb 2025Faster, smarter trials: Modernizing biopharma's R&D IT applications
• Jan 22, 2025Closing the women's health gap: Biopharma's untapped opportunity (Life Sciences)
• Jan 2025Building a shared vision for pharma R&D-supplier partnerships
• Jan 2025Boosting biopharma R&D performance with a next-generation technology stack
• Jan 2025Operational excellence in biopharma research and early development
• Jan 2025Unlocking peak operational performance in clinical development with artificial intelligence
• Jan 2025External innovation: Biopharma dealmaking to boost R&D productivity
• 2024–25Rewired Life Sciences (RewiR&D)
• Dec 2024Author Talks: Turning uncertainty into opportunity with Amar Bhidé
• Nov 2024Small but mighty: Priming biotech first-time launchers to compete with established players
• Oct 2024Value creation priorities shaping medtech
• Aug 2024Insights to Impact — weekly briefing for senior business leaders
• Jul 2024Making more medicines that matter
• Jul 2024Spurring innovation in animal health: An interview with Elanco's Jeff Simmons
• Jul 2024Decarbonizing API manufacturing: Unpacking the cost and regulatory requirements
• May 2024Beyond the pandemic: The next chapter of innovation in vaccines
• Feb 2024What to expect from medtech in 2024
• Feb 2024Here to stay: An attractive future for medical aesthetics

As an independent developmental editor, guiding books from core thesis and structure through voice and line editing.

• 2025The Experimentation Machine: Finding Product-Market Fit in the Age of AI — Jeffrey J. Bussgang (Damn Gravity Media)
• 2025The Dental Fitness Advantage: How a Healthy Mouth Enhances Total Body Health and Elevates Performance — Dr. Camesia O. Matthews (Playbook Scholars Media)

• 2024The Curie Society: Eris Eternal — Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni, Anne Toole & Sonia Liao
• 2024Mysteries of the Deep — James Lawrence Powell
• 2024Going Big: A Scientist's Guide to Large Projects and Collaborations — Christopher Stubbs
• 2023Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM — Brandon R. Brown
• 2023Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino — Alan Chodos & James Riordon
• 2023The Price of Cake: And 99 Other Classic Mathematical Riddles — Clément & Guillaume Deslandes
• 2023Chemistry for Cooks: An Introduction to the Science of Cooking — Sandra C. Greer
• 2023Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe — Shohini Ghose
• 2023Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity — Chris Impey
• 2023An Introduction to System Safety Engineering — Nancy G. Leveson
• 2023Plastics — Imari Walker-Franklin & Jenna Jambeck (Essential Knowledge Series)
• 2022University Chemistry: Frontiers and Foundations from a Global and Molecular Perspective — James G. Anderson
• 2022Computational Imaging — Ayush Bhandari, Achuta Kadambi & Ramesh Raskar
• 2022Mastering Quantum Mechanics: Essentials, Theory, and Applications — Barton Zwiebach
• 2022"Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson's Journey through the Universe — ed. David Kaiser
• 2022An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe — Will Kinney
• 2022The Nexus: Augmented Thinking for a Complex World — Julio Mario Ottino with Bruce Mau
• 2022Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus — Maia Weinstock
• 2022Nuclear Weapons — Mark Wolverton (Essential Knowledge Series)
• 2022Hidden in Plain Sight — Albert Folch
• 2022Seeing Science — Jack Challoner
• 2021The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science — Philip Ball, with Wenting Zhu & Yan Liang
• 2021The Curie Society — Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni, Janet Harvey & Sonia Liao
• 2021Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe — Brian Clegg
• 2021Into the Anthropocosmos: A Whole Space Catalog from the MIT Space Exploration Initiative — Ariel Ekblaw
• 2021Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance — Étienne Guyon, José Bico, Étienne Reyssat & Benoît Roman
• 2021Biofabrication — Ritu Raman (Essential Knowledge Series)
• 2021Water: A Visual and Scientific History — Jack Challoner
• 2020Quantum Entanglement — Jed Brody (Essential Knowledge Series)
• 2020Everyday Chaos: The Mathematics of Unpredictability, from the Weather to the Stock Market — Brian Clegg
• 2020Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy — Matt Cook
• 2020Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries — Satyan Devadoss & Matthew Harvey
• 2019Find Your Path: Unconventional Lessons from 36 Leading Scientists and Engineers — Daniel Goodman
• 2019Quantum Strangeness: Wrestling with Bell's Theorem and the Ultimate Nature of Reality — George Greenstein
• 2019Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World — John Gribbin
• 2019Fire, Ice, and Physics: The Science of Game of Thrones — Rebecca C. Thompson
• 2019The Science of Breaking Bad — Dave Trumbore & Donna J. Nelson
• 2018The Atom: A Visual Tour — Jack Challoner
• 2018Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy — Eric Johnson
• 2018The Prime Number Conspiracy from Quanta — ed. Thomas Lin
• 2018Alice and Bob Meet the Great Wall of Fire from Quanta — ed. Thomas Lin
• 2018Science Not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement — Stephanie Fine Sasse & Lucky Tran
• 2018Norbert Wiener — A Life in Cybernetics — Norbert Wiener
• 2017The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe — Clifford V. Johnson
• 2017Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity — James Riordon

• 2024 · KidsCosmic Collisions: Asteroid vs. Comet — Marc J. Kuchner, ill. Matt Schu
• 2024 · KidsCosmic Collisions: Supergiant vs. Neutron Star — Marc J. Kuchner, ill. Matt Schu
• 2024 · KidsI'm a Black Hole — Dr. Eve M. Vavagiakis, ill. Jessica Lanan (I'm a… series)
• 2022 · KidsI'm a Neutrino: Tiny Particles in a Big Universe — Dr. Eve M. Vavagiakis, ill. Ilze Lemesis
• 2021 · KidsAda and the Galaxies — Alan Lightman & Olga Pastuchiv, ill. Susanna Chapman

Nine years as industry reporter and books column editor at Physics Today, the flagship magazine of the American Institute of Physics — 140+ bylined articles covering industrial R&D, emerging technologies, science policy, and education.

• 2015Mechanical metamaterials roll off the 3D printing press (68 (9), 26–27; DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.2912)
• 2014Taking stock of the nanotechnology consumer products market (67 (2), 22–24; DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.2274)
• 2013Internet startups look to reinvent higher education (66 (3), 26–28; DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1911)
• 2012Nanopore DNA sequencing inches closer to commercial debut (65 (11), 29–31; DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1783)
• 20113D printing breaks out of its mold (64 (10), 25–27; DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1294)
• 2011Aligning scattered light for pain-free diagnostics (64 (12), 23–25; DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1353)
• 2011Harnessing consumer mobile devices for science (64 (8), 24–26; DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1218)
• 2011For underrepresented minorities, bridge programs ease transition to PhD studies (64 (3), 30–33; DOI: 10.1063/1.3563814)
• 2010Superstation in New Mexico would unite fragmented US electrical grid (63 (4), 22–24; DOI: 10.1063/1.3397034)
• 2009Accelerators shrink to meet growing demand for proton therapy (62 (3), 22–24; DOI: 10.1063/1.3099570)
• 2009Superconductors to boost wind power (62 (4), 25–26; DOI: 10.1063/1.3120924)
• 2009Commercial optical traps emerge from biophysics labs (62 (2), 26–28; DOI: 10.1063/1.3086098)
• 2008Next-generation high-Tc superconducting wires debut in the power grid (61 (1), 30–32; DOI: 10.1063/1.2883901)
• 2008Semiconductor industry switches to hafnium-based transistors (61 (2), 25–26; DOI: 10.1063/1.2883900)
• 2008Low-drag suit propels swimmers (61 (8), 32–33; DOI: 10.1063/1.2970204)
• 2008Are organic LEDs ready for the big screen? (61 (11), 26–27; DOI: 10.1063/1.3027983)

Seven years in chemical engineering and biophysics laboratories, investigating thermodynamics of actin polymerization, nanoparticle synthesis, and membrane nanofiltration.

• HowardPostdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering — Howard University (Washington, DC). Principal Investigator: Dr. Kimberly Jones
• 2005Ph.D., Chemical Engineering — University of Maryland (College Park, MD). Dissertation: Thermodynamics and relaxation during actin polymerization. Advisor: Dr. Sandra C. Greer
• 2002M.S., Chemical Engineering — University of Maryland (College Park, MD). Thesis: Production of high surface area silica particles by acoustodispersion precipitation. Advisor: Dr. Michael T. Harris
• B.S.B.S., Chemistry — Columbia Union College (Takoma Park, MD). Magna cum laude; cofounder and inaugural president of the American Chemical Society student chapter

• 2005The polymerization of actin: Extent of polymerization under pressure, volume change of polymerization, and relaxation after temperature jumps — J. N. A. Matthews, P. B. Yim, D. T. Jacobs, J. G. Forbes, N. D. Peters & S. C. Greer (The Journal of Chemical Physics 123 (7), 074904)
• 2005Actin polymerization in a thermal gradient — A. Pomerance, J. Matthews, M. Ferguson, J. S. Urbach & W. Losert (Macromolecular Symposia 227 (1), 231–242; DOI: 10.1002/masy.200550923)
• 2006Methodological assessment of nanofiltration membrane performance for bio-analytical applications — Mohamed, Szarowski, Jones & Turner (Howard University / Wadsworth Center, AIChE Annual Meeting)

On publishing, authorship, editorial acquisitions, and translating science for broad audiences.

• Sep 2026The Thought Leadership Cheat Code: How to Educate Your Audience, Build Trust, and Drive Sales — Guest training for the Grow My Business LIVE online business coaching community.
• May 2026Compete on Value, Not Price: How to Build Authority Before Automation — Guest training for AI Automations by Jack, a 4K+ online AI community.
• Feb 16, 2023Panelist: Selling Your Book Without an Agent? Three Editors Share Advice — National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Annual Meeting.
• Feb 08, 2022Episode 91: How Do Scientists Get Kids Excited About STEM? — Featured guest on the Solve It! for Kids podcast.
• Nov 12, 2021On Tradpub Nuance, Science, and Entrepreneurial Authors — In-depth interview on acquisitions editing, market analysis, and science trade books with Useful Books.
• Oct 2021Harvard Science Book Talk: In conversation with Ritu Raman, author of Biofabrication — Sponsored by the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences; part of the Science Public Lecture Series.
• Oct 2018MIT Press Pitchfest — Boston Book Festival — Evaluating live book pitches and selecting winners for a chance to develop their book with an MIT Press editor.