Tania Alonso-Vásquez obtained her master’s degree with honours in Molecular Biology at University of Florence. During her thesis she worked developing a dynamic metabolic model of the Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, with a thesis in genetics and environmental toxicology. She is currently doing an internship at the Biology Department at the University of Florence studying the metabolic consequences of antibiotic exposure in bacteria using transcriptomics and metabolic (constraint-based metabolic) modelling.