Matteo Bargagli is a nephrologist at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS and he is currently attending the translational medicine PhD program of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. His academic interest is focused on tubular pathophysiology and both medical and nutritional treatment of nephrolithiasis. He recently concluded a 3-months research fellowship in the Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, focused on Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease and kidney stones.