Matthew Suderman is an Associate Professor in Molecular Epidemiology in the Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) at the University of Bristol.  His research uses approaches from machine learning in high-dimensional molecular data measured in peripheral tissues like blood and saliva to predict disease risk and outcomes. Diseases of particular interest include lung, pancreatic and prostate cancers, kidney disease, and cardiometabolic disease.  Dr Suderman received his PhD in  Computer Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 2005.  He then spent several years doing research on Bioinformatics and Epigenetics at McGill. He joined the IEU in Bristol in 2013.