Matthew Snelson
Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Nutrition & Health Innovation Research Institute
Edith Cowan University
Biography
I am an advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the School of Medical and Health Sciences within the Nutrition & Health Innovation Research Institute (NHIRI) at Edith Cowan University. I am interested in how dietary interventions can influence the prevention and management of chronic diseases—such as hypertension, heart failure, diabetes, and kidney disease—through modulation of gut homeostasis. My work explores how nutrition-driven changes in the gut microbiome, intestinal permeability, and metabolic pathways can reduce disease risk and improve therapeutic outcomes.
I completed my PhD in 2019 at Monash University’s Department of Diabetes, where I investigated how a processed diet disrupts gut homeostasis and contributes to the development of diabetic kidney disease, working in the Coughlan Laboratory. Following this, I continued as a postdoctoral research fellow in the same department, focusing on the effects of resistant starch on diabetic kidney disease.
From 2022 to 2025, I held a Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and served as Group Leader and Co-Deputy Lab Head of the Hypertension Research Laboratory at Monash University. My research program examined how dietary interventions can influence hypertension by modulating gut microbiota and intestinal permeability.
Interests
- Diet-Microbiota Interactions
- Metagenomics
- Diabetic Kidney Disease
- Prebiotics
- Data Analysis in R
Education
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PhD in Nutrition, 2019
Monash University
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Postgraduate Diploma in Biotechnology, 2014
Swinburne University
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Bachelor of Health Sciences, 2012
Curtin University
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Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics, 2009
Curtin University
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Bachelor of Science (Nutrition), 2008
Curtin University