Dagmar Iber studied mathematics and biochemistry in Regensburg, Cambridge, and Oxford. She holds Master degrees and PhDs in both disciplines. After three years as a Junior Research Fellow in St John’s College, Oxford, Dagmar became a lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London. Dagmar has joined ETH Zurich in 2008 after returning from an investment bank where she worked as an oil option trader for one year. She leads the Computational Biology Group (CoBi), which focuses on the delineation of fundamental developmental mechanisms and which develops data-driven mechanistic 4D in silico models of a wide range of developmental processes, covering gamete formation, early embryogenesis, and organogenesis, including kidney development. The group runs a wet lab to obtain imaging data, but also teams up with biologists, and collaborates with clinicians on problems in personalised medicine.