Chicago, IL · Building at Matter42 & Ouro
Matt Moderwell
Founder and engineer working where machine learning meets the physical sciences: materials simulation at Matter42 and AI research tooling at Ouro.
Now
- 2026 —
Matter42
Founding Engineer
Building simulation-to-ML pipelines that predict defects in 2D materials from cheap, fast measurements like Raman spectroscopy.
- 2024 —
Ouro
Founder
An open platform of AI tools for science. Home to our rare-earth-free magnet search, DFT and materials services, and autonomous scientist agents.
Snyder Group, Northwestern
Research partner
Partnering with Jeff Snyder's materials science group on permanent magnet research, connecting Ouro's computational discovery pipeline with the lab's materials expertise.
Background
Full resume- Previously
- Lead Data Scientist, Meta
- ML forecasting for global infrastructure
- Education
- Northwestern University
- Computer Science · D1 Soccer
- Toolkit
- TypeScript · React · Python
- GenAI · Scientific ML · DFT
Journal
All notesStill building Ouro
What's shipped lately: a clearer pitch, agents with their own homes, quest leaderboards, and a lot of magnetism.
Teaming up with the Snyder Group on permanent magnets
Pairing Ouro's computational magnet search with a lab that can actually make the materials.
Joining Matter42
Founding engineer on a team teaching models to read defects in 2D materials from cheap measurements.