After a diploma in psychology from the University of Würzburg, Germany, Matthias obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Helsinki in 2021 with research on impulsive determinants of unhealthy eating. He then started as a Postdoc in the PREVENT project that studies the use of Virtual Reality for prejudice reduction with a neuropsychological angle. He is interested in why people act against their own intentions and how a better understanding of the human mind can help people act the way they would like to.