Matteo Cereda was born in Lecco (IT) and he graduated in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 2005. After a few years spent as a junior fellow at the IRCCS 'Medea' (Bosisio Parini, IT), he got his Ph.D. in Complex Systems in Genomics from the University of Turin in 2010. During this time, Matteo joined the group of Jernej Ule at the MRC LMB (Cambridge, UK), where he focused on protein-RNA interactions. As a postdoc, he moved to the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) and then to the King's College London (UK) in the group of Francesca Ciccarelli. There he studied tumor evolution and heterogeneity in cancer progression and drug resistance being involved in large cancer sequencing programs. Since 2019 he has led the Cancer Genomics and Bioinformatics (CGB) unit at the Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM) in Torino. Since 2021 Matteo has been appointed as Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Milan "La Statale"