Sahar El Aidy has a BSc. in pharmaceutical sciences, Alexandria university (Alexandria, Egypt). She then received a NUFFIC scholarship to study her masters in cellular and molecular Biotechnology at Wageningen University (Wageningen, The Netherlands). Later, she did her PhD at the laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, where she successfully deciphered detailed molecular processes underlying the dynamic interplay of the gut microbiota and host that drives establishment of homeostasis. With the aim to obtain training-through-research to further develop her academic qualifications, she was successfully recruited to the Cryan Laboratory, a renowned world-leading laboratory in microbe-gut-brain interactions within the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Center, University College Cork (Cork, Ireland). Afterwards, she was appointed as a specialist in host-microbe interactions at the Nestle Research Centre (Lausanne, Switzerland) where she worked on the effect of human milk oligosaccharides on the gut microbiota population in human infants. Sahar joined the University of groningen as a Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Tenure Track Assistant Professor.