diff --git a/data/Matlab/complex.mat b/data/Matlab/complex.mat
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..18b85bb8
Binary files /dev/null and b/data/Matlab/complex.mat differ
diff --git a/data/Matlab/matrices.txt b/data/Matlab/matrices.txt
index 72829177..91d7dc97 100644
--- a/data/Matlab/matrices.txt
+++ b/data/Matlab/matrices.txt
@@ -12,4 +12,14 @@ collection.mat contains:
 * a vector w
 
 A.mat contains:
-* a matrix A
\ No newline at end of file
+* a matrix A
+
+complex.mat contains:
+* dense, complex matrix a
+* dense, complex matrix b
+* dense, complex matrix c
+
+sparse_complex.mat contains:
+* sparse, complex matrix sa
+* sparse, complex matrix sb
+* sparse, complex matrix sc
diff --git a/data/Matlab/sparse_complex.mat b/data/Matlab/sparse_complex.mat
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b1fe2d19
Binary files /dev/null and b/data/Matlab/sparse_complex.mat differ
diff --git a/src/MathNet.Numerics.5.1.ReSharper b/src/MathNet.Numerics.5.1.ReSharper
index 108ae5fe..1b3673de 100644
--- a/src/MathNet.Numerics.5.1.ReSharper
+++ b/src/MathNet.Numerics.5.1.ReSharper
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ Xorshift
 Matlab
 Matlab
 Matlab
-Endian</UserWords>
+Endian
+indices</UserWords>
             </CustomDictionary>
           </Dictionaries>
         </CustomDictionaries>
diff --git a/src/Numerics/LinearAlgebra/IO/Matlab/MatlabParser.cs b/src/Numerics/LinearAlgebra/IO/Matlab/MatlabParser.cs
index 7e4b6010..302e2f7a 100644
--- a/src/Numerics/LinearAlgebra/IO/Matlab/MatlabParser.cs
+++ b/src/Numerics/LinearAlgebra/IO/Matlab/MatlabParser.cs
@@ -1017,6 +1017,9 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.LinearAlgebra.IO.Matlab
 
             if (isComplex)
             {
+                // skip header
+                reader.ReadBytes(8);
+
                 switch (type)
                 {
                     case DataType.Int8:
@@ -1244,6 +1247,9 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.LinearAlgebra.IO.Matlab
 
             if (isComplex)
             {
+                // skip header
+                reader.ReadBytes(8);
+
                 switch (type)
                 {
                     case DataType.Int8:
diff --git a/src/UnitTests/LinearAlgebraTests/Complex/IO/MatlabReaderTests.cs b/src/UnitTests/LinearAlgebraTests/Complex/IO/MatlabReaderTests.cs
index d401fc78..5b03e108 100644
--- a/src/UnitTests/LinearAlgebraTests/Complex/IO/MatlabReaderTests.cs
+++ b/src/UnitTests/LinearAlgebraTests/Complex/IO/MatlabReaderTests.cs
@@ -1,13 +1,52 @@
 
 namespace MathNet.Numerics.UnitTests.LinearAlgebraTests.Complex.IO
 {
-    using LinearAlgebra.Double;
-    using LinearAlgebra.Double.IO;
+    using System;
+    using System.Diagnostics;
+    using LinearAlgebra.Complex;
+    using LinearAlgebra.Complex.IO;
     using MbUnit.Framework;
 
     [TestFixture]
     public class MatlabMatrixReaderTest
     {
+
+        [Test]
+        public void CanReadComplexAllMatrices()
+        {
+            var dmr = new MatlabMatrixReader("./data/Matlab/complex.mat");
+            var matrices = dmr.ReadMatrices();
+            Assert.AreEqual(3, matrices.Length);
+            foreach (var matrix in matrices)
+            {
+                Assert.AreEqual(typeof(DenseMatrix), matrix.GetType());
+            }
+
+            var a = matrices[0];
+
+            Assert.AreEqual(100, a.RowCount);
+            Assert.AreEqual(100, a.ColumnCount);
+            AssertHelpers.AlmostEqual(27.232498979698409, a.L2Norm(), 15);
+        }
+
+        [Test]
+        public void CanReadSparseComplexAllMatrices()
+        {
+            var dmr = new MatlabMatrixReader("./data/Matlab/sparse_complex.mat");
+            var matrices = dmr.ReadMatrices();
+            Assert.AreEqual(3, matrices.Length);
+            foreach (var matrix in matrices)
+            {
+                Assert.AreEqual(typeof(SparseMatrix), matrix.GetType());
+            }
+
+            var a = matrices[0];
+
+            Assert.AreEqual(100, a.RowCount);
+            Assert.AreEqual(100, a.ColumnCount);
+            AssertHelpers.AlmostEqual(13.223654390985379, a.L2Norm(), 15);
+        }
+
         [Test]
         public void CanReadNonComplexAllMatrices()
         {
diff --git a/src/UnitTests/LinearAlgebraTests/Complex32/IO/MatlabReaderTests.cs b/src/UnitTests/LinearAlgebraTests/Complex32/IO/MatlabReaderTests.cs
index 47504e3b..626e11e2 100644
--- a/src/UnitTests/LinearAlgebraTests/Complex32/IO/MatlabReaderTests.cs
+++ b/src/UnitTests/LinearAlgebraTests/Complex32/IO/MatlabReaderTests.cs
@@ -1,13 +1,50 @@
 
 namespace MathNet.Numerics.UnitTests.LinearAlgebraTests.Complex32.IO
 {
-    using LinearAlgebra.Double;
-    using LinearAlgebra.Double.IO;
+    using LinearAlgebra.Complex32;
+    using LinearAlgebra.Complex32.IO;
     using MbUnit.Framework;
 
     [TestFixture]
     public class MatlabMatrixReaderTest
     {
+
+        [Test]
+        public void CanReadComplexAllMatrices()
+        {
+            var dmr = new MatlabMatrixReader("./data/Matlab/complex.mat");
+            var matrices = dmr.ReadMatrices();
+            Assert.AreEqual(3, matrices.Length);
+            foreach (var matrix in matrices)
+            {
+                Assert.AreEqual(typeof(DenseMatrix), matrix.GetType());
+            }
+
+            var a = matrices[0];
+
+            Assert.AreEqual(100, a.RowCount);
+            Assert.AreEqual(100, a.ColumnCount);
+            AssertHelpers.AlmostEqual(27.232498979698409, a.L2Norm(), 6);
+        }
+
+        [Test]
+        public void CanReadSparseComplexAllMatrices()
+        {
+            var dmr = new MatlabMatrixReader("./data/Matlab/sparse_complex.mat");
+            var matrices = dmr.ReadMatrices();
+            Assert.AreEqual(3, matrices.Length);
+            foreach (var matrix in matrices)
+            {
+                Assert.AreEqual(typeof(SparseMatrix), matrix.GetType());
+            }
+
+            var a = matrices[0];
+
+            Assert.AreEqual(100, a.RowCount);
+            Assert.AreEqual(100, a.ColumnCount);
+            AssertHelpers.AlmostEqual(13.223654390985379, a.L2Norm(), 7);
+        }
+
         [Test]
         public void CanReadNonComplexAllMatrices()
         {
@@ -28,7 +65,7 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.UnitTests.LinearAlgebraTests.Complex32.IO
             Assert.AreEqual(100, matrix.RowCount);
             Assert.AreEqual(100, matrix.ColumnCount);
             Assert.AreEqual(typeof(DenseMatrix), matrix.GetType());
-            AssertHelpers.AlmostEqual(100.108979553704, matrix.FrobeniusNorm(), 13);
+            AssertHelpers.AlmostEqual(100.108979553704, matrix.FrobeniusNorm(), 6);
         }
 
 
@@ -52,7 +89,7 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.UnitTests.LinearAlgebraTests.Complex32.IO
             Assert.AreEqual(1, matrices.Length);
             Assert.AreEqual(100, matrices[0].RowCount);
             Assert.AreEqual(100, matrices[0].ColumnCount);
-            AssertHelpers.AlmostEqual(100.431635988639, matrices[0].FrobeniusNorm(), 13);
+            AssertHelpers.AlmostEqual(100.431635988639, matrices[0].FrobeniusNorm(), 6);
             Assert.AreEqual(typeof(DenseMatrix), matrices[0].GetType());
         }
 
@@ -64,7 +101,7 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.UnitTests.LinearAlgebraTests.Complex32.IO
             Assert.AreEqual(100, matrix.RowCount);
             Assert.AreEqual(100, matrix.ColumnCount);
             Assert.AreEqual(typeof(SparseMatrix), matrix.GetType());
-            AssertHelpers.AlmostEqual(17.6385090630805, matrix.FrobeniusNorm(), 12);
+            AssertHelpers.AlmostEqual(17.6385090630805, matrix.FrobeniusNorm(), 6);
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/UnitTests/UnitTests.csproj b/src/UnitTests/UnitTests.csproj
index 40aca2c6..fb8e9e98 100644
--- a/src/UnitTests/UnitTests.csproj
+++ b/src/UnitTests/UnitTests.csproj
@@ -376,6 +376,10 @@
       <Link>data\Matlab\collection.mat</Link>
       <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
     </None>
+    <None Include="..\..\data\Matlab\complex.mat">
+      <Link>data\Matlab\complex.mat</Link>
+      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
+    </None>
     <None Include="..\..\data\Matlab\sparse-large.mat">
       <Link>data\Matlab\sparse-large.mat</Link>
       <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
@@ -384,6 +388,10 @@
       <Link>data\Matlab\sparse-small.mat</Link>
       <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
     </None>
+    <None Include="..\..\data\Matlab\sparse_complex.mat">
+      <Link>data\Matlab\sparse_complex.mat</Link>
+      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
+    </None>
     <None Include="..\..\data\Matlab\v.mat">
       <Link>data\Matlab\v.mat</Link>
       <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>