He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis. Matzke is currently a phylogeneticist at the School of Biological Scienes at the University of Auckland, having previously been a Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) fellow at the Australian National University.
Matzke is a phylogeneticist who previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and later as a DECRA fellow at the Australian National University, now working at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland.