Hsinyu Lin is from Taiwan and graduated from National Tsinghua University (NTHU) with dual degrees in Foreign Languages and Literatures and Life Science. She is now a Masters student in Microbiology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. She has a burgeoning interest in microbiomes and is working on a mycobiome project for her masters thesis. In her leisure time she likes to travel, dance, listen to music, and hang out with friends.