Carlos Alberto Ibáñez Chávez is a project researcher at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ) in Mexico City. He was trained as a Pharmaceutical Chemist Biologist and Master in Experimental Biology. In 2019, received a Biochemical Sciences PhD with honorific mention from “Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México”. His main research interest is related to the offspring metabolic programming by maternal obesity in animal models. During his PhD training, he developed a new approach to characterize the adipose tissue expansion in obese mothers’ offspring at the Reproductive Biology Department of INCMNSZ. In 2015, he completed a research fellowship at “Universidade Estadual de Maringá” in Brazil. In 2020, received the Laxmi-Baxi award, recognizing the best abstract of basic science submitted by a young researcher at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation. He is currently a member of the International Society of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.