Máté is is a biological physicist interested in collective animal behaviour and applying/developing state-of-the-art automated measurement techniques and analysis methods.
Previously he was a Royal Society Newton Fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford working with Dr. Dora Biro. He has been a post-doc and he did his PhD in Physics at Eötvös University, Budapest with Professor Tamás Vicsek, studying collective motion and leader-follower relations in pigeon flocks and modelling self-propelled particles.