Matthew Graham George Thaddeus Taylor (born 1973) is a British astrophysicist employed by the European Space Agency.

Taylor earned a PhD[5] in space physics which focused on Magnetohydrodynamics modelling of astrophysical plasma in the magnetosphere from Imperial College London.

[2][4] Taylor was the subject of controversy over artwork on a shirt he wore during a 2014 ESA Press conference regarding the Rosetta craft, which some perceived to be sexist.

He has posed with David Vincent of Morbid Angel for the magazine Metal Hammer, as well as having been photographed wearing Cannibal Corpse shirts multiple times.

[15] He wrote the foreword to David Vincent's biography I Am Morbid: Ten Lessons Learned From Extreme Metal, Outlaw Country, And The Power Of Self-Determination.