Dr. Isabel Rubio Aliaga studied Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Valencia (Spain), and obtained a MSc in Human Nutrition and Metabolism from the University of Aberdeen (UK). She completed her PhD on physiological and biochemical aspects of renal peptide transport in mammals in 2001 at the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Hannelore Daniel. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Prof. Nancy C. Andrews (Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) on human genetics of blood disorders, and on the Delta/Notch pathway using mouse genetic tools in the Department of Prof. Martin Habrê de Angelis (Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany). Then she moved back to Prof. Daniel’s laboratory (TUM, Germany) to work as project manager of an European multi-centric project on energy metabolism within the European Nutrigenomics Organisation (NuGO), a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission. Furthermore, she was a group leader in projects focused on amino acid metabolism and data-rich human and mouse projects on energy metabolism using omics technologies. Next, she worked for two years as a project manager in the industry at the Nestlé Research Center (Nestec Ltd, Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Switzerland) on projects on energy metabolism to implement strategies in personalized nutrition. Since 2012, she is working as a Senior Scientist at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in the group of Prof. Carsten Wagner. 2016, she obtained the Venia legend in Physiology from the University of Zurich. Currently, she is working on projects on phosphate homeostasis, nutrition, aging and kidney disease.