Mariëtte Boon (1988) has studied Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and received her PhD degree at the dept. Internal Medicine cum laude (2014). During her PhD training, she has set up an interdisciplinary research line on brown adipose tissue biology and its therapeutic potential. She has received several research grants, including grants from the LUMC Board of Directors, Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation, NWO-Rubicon, RICS and European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD). Furthermore, she has won several awards for her research, including the prestigious Heineken Young Scientist Award for Medicine 2016 and the Gratama Science Award 2019. She has supervised 6 PhD students so far and has published over 70 papers, including Nat Med, Nat Commun, Diabetes, Diabetologia and Cell Metab. She is one of the founders and previous chair of the ‘Young Dutch Society for Endocrinology’. Together with prof Liesbeth van Rossum (Erasmus MC), she has written the bestseller ‘VET belangrijk’, a book for the lay public on the working of body fat and how you can effectively combat overweight and obesity. In 2020, this book will be published in 10 countries. Currently, she is in training to become an internal medicine specialist (HMC+) and combines research with clinical training.