Maria Secrier is an Associate Professor in Computational Cancer Biology at the UCL Genetics Institute. Her group focuses on understanding cancer evolution in its environmental niche by developing machine learning and data integration methods for complex multi-omics and imaging datasets. Maria trained in Bioinformatics at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, and obtained her PhD in Computational Biology in 2013 from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. Afterwards she worked with Simon Tavaré and Rebecca Fitzgerald on the genomics of oesophageal cancer as a postdoc at the CRUK Cambridge Institute and Bye-Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She also acquired experience in immuno-oncology and new target discovery as a Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca, before joining UCL in 2017.