We are happy to welcome in our team Tzu-Lun Wang as Engineer in advanced optical/light microscopy and Nazli Celik as Administrator.

Tzu-Lun joined the LM service team in October after working for two years as Scientific Expert at Resolve Biosciences in Monheim am Rhein, where he worked on high-resolution high-throughput imaging for spatial transcriptomics.
After obtaining a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Göttingen, he gained expertise in mesoscopic two-photon and light sheet microscopy and adaptive optical microscopy as a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center Caesar in Bonn, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, and University of Twente in the Netherlands.

At the EMBL IC, Tzu-Lun is focused in setting-up, testing, running and maintaining novel and custom advanced light microscopy systems and their control software.

Nazli joined us in November after seven years at the European Space Agency (ESA, Headquarters in Paris) in the Legal Services Department as Paralegal Assistant Administrator. Before joining ESA Nazli worked as Senior Associate in the Tax Knowledge Department at Ernst & Young in Luxembourg. Nazli worked mainly in the legal field of international companies like Tarkett Group and DaimlerChrysler, both located in Paris. Besides that, she also gained working experience as trilingual assistant at the German Embassy in Paris and in parallel for the German Delegation at UNESCO. Nazli has a Diploma as Paralegal and another one in Economics and foreign languages. Nazli is fluent in German, Turkish, English and French, she has basic knowledge in Hungarian, Spanish and Greek. 

In her new role at the EMBL IC, Nazli provides a wide range of administrative support for all activities of the facility. She acts as a point of contact for our user service and she liaises with other departments at EMBL.