First person – Huy Tran

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Huy Tran is first author on ‘ EyeHex toolbox for complete segmentation of ommatidia in fruit fly eyes’, published in BiO. Huy conducted the research described in this article while a Postdoctoral Researcher in Nathalie Dostatni's lab at Institut Curie, Paris, France. He is now an Academy Research Fellow in the lab of Soile Nymark at Tampere University, Finland, investigating dynamics, memory and noise in living systems.