Jermey Matthews

Jermey Matthews is Senior Acquisitions Editor for Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics at The MIT Press. He is particularly interested in publishing textbooks and trade books on topics in cosmology, astrophysics, quantum theory, materials science, chemistry, aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, and mathematics. Previously, Jermey served as industry reporter and book reviews editor for Physics Today, the flagship magazine of the American Institute of Physics. He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland. His social handles and bios are at https://sleek.bio/jnamatt, and he can be reached by email at jnamatt@mit.edu.   

Highlights on his list include Ashley Jean Yeager’s Bright Galaxies Dark Matter, and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin, Clifford Johnson’s The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe, Heather Einhorn and Adam Stafforoni’s The Curie Society, Philip Ball’s The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science, and Joel David Hamkins’ Proof and the Art of Mathematics. Forthcoming textbooks include Barton Zwiebach’s Mastering Quantum Mechanics, James G. Anderson’s University Chemistry, and Ayush Bhandari, Achuta Kadambi, and Ramesh Raskar’s Computational Imaging. Jermey also helped launch two new children's book imprints, MIT Kids Press and MITeens Press and acquired two of their first books: Ada and the Galaxies by Alan Lightman and I’m a Neutrino by Eve Vavagiakis.