Dr Matt Fysh
Research Associate
Matt is a postdoctoral research associate on a project that studies autism and physical health, and which aims to investigate why certain health conditions are more common in autistic people compared to non-autistic people.
Prior to joining the ARC, Matt’s research focused on the intersection of autism and gender identity in children (2022-2025). His research interests also concern face identification, and as part of his PhD he developed the Kent Face Matching Test, which is used extensively to study unfamiliar face matching. Between 2019 and 2022, Matt also studied face identity perception in virtual reality, and developed a novel method for generating virtual avatars of real people based on 3D scanning. His PhD in Cognitive Psychology was awarded in 2017 at the University of Kent.
Email: mf875@cam.ac.uk
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3812-3749
Selected Publications:
Gender identity profiles in autistic and non‐autistic cisgender and gender diverse youth, and their caregivers (2025). MC Fysh, A Kallitsounaki, DM Williams, E Kennedy, and L Spinner. Autism Research.
Behavioural phenotypes of autism in autistic and nonautistic gender clinic-referred youth and their caregivers (2025). A Kallitsounaki, MC Fysh, DM Williams, L Spinner, and E Kennedy. Autism.
Implicit and explicit gender identification in autistic and nonautistic gender clinic-referred youth, and their caregivers (2025). A Kallitsounaki, MC Fysh, DM Williams, L Spinner, and E Kennedy. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Understanding face matching (2023). MC Fysh and M Bindemann. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Accurate but inefficient: Standard face identity matching tests fail to identify prosopagnosia (2022). MC Fysh and M Ramon. Neuropsychologia.
Avatars with faces of real people: A construction method for scientific experiments in virtual reality (2022). MC Fysh, IV Trifonova, J Allen, C McCall, AM Burton, and M Bindemann. Behavior Research Methods.
The Kent Face Matching Test (2018). MC Fysh and M Bidnemann. British Journal of Psychology.