First person – Xian Hu

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. Xian Hu is first author on ‘Micro-stepping extended focus reduces photobleaching and preserves structured illumination super-resolution features’, published in JCS. Xian is a Postdoc in the lab of Oddmund Bakke at the Department of Biosciences University of Oslo, Norway, investigating the link between intracellular vesicular trafficking and mechano-sensing by using state-of-the-art bioimaging and image-processing technologies.