Prof. Carsten A Wagner studied Medicine in Tübingen (Germany) where he also obtained his medical dissertation in Physiology on phosphate transport under the supervision of Prof. Florian Lang and Prof. Andreas Busch. He continued his education as a fellow of the German Alexander von Humboldt foundation in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University under the guidance of Prof. Gerhard Giebisch and Prof. John Geibel focusing on epithelial transport and regulation of acid-base balance. After joining the Institute of Physiology at the University of Zurich first as a postdoc and junior group leader with Prof. Heini Murer, then as assistant professor, and since 2009 as full professor, he has been working mostly on various aspects of renal and intestinal phosphate transport, (endocrine) regulation of phosphate homeostasis, impact of phosphate on health and disease processes, and genetics of phosphate balance as well as on renal regulation of systemic acid-base homeostasis, renal and extrarenal sensing of acid-base equivalents, and the role of acids in disease. He is also co-leader of the Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort, chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Renal Association (ERA) and board member of the European Association of Urology-Section of Urolithiasis (EULIS).