Matthew Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and INSA de Lyon awarded in 2012. He currently serves as the chief technology officer of Deepwater Corrosion Services, Inc. where he has focused exclusively on offshore corrosion prevention and cathodic protection of offshore assets since 2012. His early corrosion studies focused on hydrogen permeation and passivity of alloy 22 for the U.S. nuclear industry. Further research highlights include the discovery of resistive monoethanolamine depassivation and proposing a new passivity mechanism for high nitrogen steels. Matthew is the author of Ellis2, a software commonly used to optimize advanced electrochemical impedance functions such as the point defect model of the passive state. He has recently served as a corrosion industry advisor for a BOEM / BSEE offshore wind turbine foundation corrosion effort led by Tufts university.