A very warm PhD graduation

Marco Galardini
30 June 2026

Last week, during a brutal heatwave, we had the great pleasure to have a new PhD graduation from our lab! Hien defended her thesis from the questions of her two examiners, Caroline Wendling and Marius Vital. Hien did a great job, and has a result she did not need to make any changes to her dissertation.

A photo of Hien with her PhD hat

Fun fact: while Hien was defending her thesis, her long-running experiment in our Chi.Bio bioreactors was still running in a very warm lab. Such are the joys of automated laboratory evolution!

A photo of Hien receiving her diploma

Congratulations to Hien!