Tair Ben Porat, PhD, graduated with an Excellence A first degree in nutritional science from the Agriculture Faculty of the Hebrew University and obtained her PhD from the Department of Nutrition and Metabolism of the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. She also holds a Master's of Public Health (MPH) from the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on nutritional and metabolic aspects pre- and post-bariatric surgery. During the last decade, Dr Ben Porat has managed bariatric surgery nutritional therapy for patients with severe obesity at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center. Dr Ben Porat currently serves as the Chair of the “Bariatric Surgery Forum” of the Israeli Dietetic Association, as a committee member of the Israeli Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and as the Chair of the Integrated Health Committee of the European chapter of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO-EC). In 2021, Dr Ben-Porat joined the Montreal Behavioral Medicine Center and Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, for her FRQS-funded postdoctoral studies. Her research focuses on exploring and understanding the impacts of bariatric procedures on mental, nutritional and metabolic outcomes among target groups, as well as elucidating the combination of genetic/microbiota factors and patient behavior/lifestyle as key factors to establish innovative personalized future therapies.