Dr. Philip Matthews

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Assistant Professor

Department of Zoology

Phil Matthews completed his PhD at the University of Adelaide in South Australia (2008) before taking up an ARC funded APA and DECRA postdoctoral fellowship in Dr Craig White’s lab at the University of Queensland where he studied breathing patterns in insects. He joined the ComPhy group in the Zoology Department at UBC in 2014.

 

Website

  • 10th International Symposium on the Environmental Physiology of Ectotherms and Plants (ISEPEP 10)

    July 14-17, 2025

    ISEPEP featured world-leading research in the environmental physiology of ectotherms, including plants, microbes, vertebrates, and invertebrates.

     

Publications

  • Matthews, P. G. D. (2025). Buoyancy Regulation in Insects. Physiology 40.
    2025
  • Lee, D. J.‡ and Matthews, P. G. D. (2024). Oxygen extraction efficiency of the tidally-ventilated rectal gills of dragonfly nymphs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291, 20231699.
    2024
  • Harrison, J.F. McKenzie, E., Talal, S., Socha, J.J., Westneat, M.W., Matthews, P.G.D. (2023) Air sacs are a key adaptive trait of the insect respiratory system. The Journal of Experimental Biology.
    2023
  • E. K. G. McKenzie, G. T. Kwan, M. Tresguerres, P. G. D. Matthews, A pH-powered mechanochemical engine regulates the buoyancy of Chaoborus midge larvae. Curr. Biol. 32, 927-933.e925 (2022).
    2022