Femke Hoevenaars, studied Molecular Nutrition and Toxicology (MSc) at Wageningen University. During her Ph.D. in Nutritional Physiology and Metabolism at Wageningen University as well as her Postdoc at VU University Medical Center she investigated the adaptive character of adipose tissue in response to environmental challenges including nutrition. Currently, she is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Microbiology and Systems Biology at TNO. Her research focuses on understanding systemic health to improve our knowledge of the body’s homeostatic capacity in relation to nutrition. She places special emphasis on the influence of nutrition on the gut as everything we eat could serve as a substrate for bacterial metabolism. Her studies integrate knowledge of physiology, molecular nutrition and gut health to create actionable nutrition strategies. Furthermore she investigates the translation ability from in vitro models to in vivo clinical studies concerning gut health. To achieve this, she collaborates with computational scientists who create methods to improve digital health and facilitate the translation of laboratory findings to human applications.