Esther Bijsmans completed her veterinary medicine degree at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and graduated in 2012. She worked in different private and charity clinics in London for 5 years, and continued her education with a PhD on hypertension and chronic kidney disease in the cat at the Royal Veterinary College in the United Kingdom. In the autumn of 2017 she got the opportunity to join R&D at Royal Canin, where she is working on research projects related to renal and urinary disease in dogs and cats.