His Ph.D. work was done at the Departments of Organic Chemistry and Polymer Technology (Chalmers University of Technology) and he received his Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry in 1995. The title of the thesis was "Synthesis and Properties of Substituted Poly(thiophenes)".

After receiving his degree he spent one year as a post doc. at the Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California at Santa Barbara.

In 2004 he was appointed professor in Polymer Chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology.

Mats Andersson's research group is active within the field of Polymer electronics.