Alix Pham is a volunteer for the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) in nutrition research, and a doctoral student at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). She studied a double diploma in Biomedical Engineering between Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France) and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ, Switzerland). Her focus is on the gut microbiota and host-microbiome interactions, and how nutrition and health intertwine. She is also fascinated by the field of alternative proteins: cultivated meat, plant-based meat, and precision fermentation are key tools for a more sustainable future. She is president of Effective Altruism Lausanne.