Matthew McGill is professor of chemical and biochemical engineering and directs the Iowa Atmospheric Sensor Development Lab at the University of Iowa.

Before joining the University of Iowa faculty, Professor McGill was deputy director of NASA Goddard’s Earth Sciences Division. He worked with NASA's SBIR/STTR program for nearly 20 years. He held roles as subtopic and topic manager, as well as contracting officer representative on numerous Phase I, II, and III development efforts. His research program centered on lidar remote sensing of the atmosphere. He utilized SBIR technologies in engineering development and airborne demonstration instruments to prototype new measurements and used SBIR Phase III contract mechanisms for major hardware components of the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) demonstration on the International Space Station (https://cats.gsfc.nasa.gov).

Professor McGill's research focuses include lidar remote sensing, Doppler lidar, radiative transfer, atmospheric physics, atmospheric dynamics, interferometry, and instrument development. He has 25 years’ experience developing lidar remote sensing instruments and technologies and participating in airborne field campaigns to measure properties of clouds and aerosols in the Earth’s atmosphere.