First person – Georgi Dimchev

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Georgi Dimchev is first author on ‘Lamellipodin tunes cell migration by stabilizing protrusions and promoting adhesion formation’, published in JCS. Georgi conducted the research described in this article while a post-doc in Prof. Klemens Rottner's lab at Division of Molecular Cell Biology, Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. He is now a Post-doc in the lab of Florian Schur at IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria, he is interested in uncovering the specific activities of cytoskeleton-associated proteins in situ.