Dr Luyckx obtained her MBBCh from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She trained in Internal Medicine at University of Miami and in Nephrology at Harvard Medical School. She holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Biomedical Ethics at the University of Zurich. She has held faculty positions in nephrology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Harvard Medical School and the University of Alberta.

She is based at the University of Zurich in the Department of Public and Global Health, and holds affiliate positions at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town.

Her research activities include the challenges of justice, ethics and moral distress relating to resource allocation and the prevention and management of kidney disease and in resource limited regions. She is an active advocate for prevention of non-communicable diseases, especially kidney health, with the goal of supporting equity, local expertise, and fair priority setting for quality kidney care in resource limited settings. She is currently chair of the Advocacy Working Group of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and a member of the EUDIAL working Group and the Ethics Committee of the European Renal Association (ERA) and is actively involved in the ISN and ERA Taskforces for Renal Disasters. She is a board member of the International Society for Priorities in Health. She serves on the Swiss Central Ethics Committee (ZEK).