Matt Hill, Ph.D. is professor of Biology and Anatomy at the University of Calgary in Alberta. Dr. Hill's work largely focuses on the intersection between cannabinoids and the stress response. Matt began working in the laboratory of Dr. Boris Gorzalka as a 2nd year undergraduate in 1999. His initial projects were at looking at the behavioural effects of the hormones corticosterone and melatonin on stress coping behaviour. Dr. Hill continued Graduate work in the Gorzalka lab, where he transitioned into exploring the endocannabinoid system, how it interacts with stress hormones and how these changes contribute to alterations in affective and cognitive behaviour. The focus of his thesis was examining the impacts of chronic stress and antidepressant treatments on the endocannabinoid system.

Matt also spent a large portion of his graduate training in two other labs, those of Dr. Cecilia Hillard and Dr. Victor Viau, where he honed skills in the neuropharmacology of cannabinoids and the psychoneuroendocrinology of stress, respectively. In 2008, Matt finished his PhD and left UBC to join the laboratory of Dr. Bruce McEwen at Rockefeller University in New York City. He finished his post-Doctoral fellowship and started his own lab at the University of Calgary in the summer of 2011.

Dr. Hill was ICRS Student Representative from 2008-10 and ICRS President from 2016-17.