Dr Florian Traversi has been a postdoctoral researcher in the research groups of Prof Matthias Baumgartner and Dr Sean Froese in the Division of Metabolism at the University Children’s Hospital Zürich since September 2020. He obtained a BSc degree in Biomedical Sciences from the Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, and an MSc degree in Pathophysiology from the University of Strasbourg in France. During his PhD studies at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Bern, he investigated the role of MAPK and NOTCH pathways in thyroid cancer. His current focus is to identify how single gene defects lead to disturbed metabolic networks in vitamin B12 and folate metabolism.