Summary
Heyu Lin is a postdoctoral research fellow at QUT with a decade of experience probing microbially driven biogeochemical cycles using a blend of culturing, non-culturing, and multi-omics approaches. Her PhD work on microbial mercury methylation and earlier studies of Vibrio and Flavobacterium underpin a focus on archaeal-mediated anaerobic methane oxidation and its environmental and human-health implications. She combines comparative genomics, phylogenetics, and evolution with bespoke bioinformatics tools to reveal hidden microbial functions in low-oxygen systems. Based in Queensland, she brings interdisciplinary rigor—connecting field microbiology to computational pipelines—and a track record of developing software that accelerates discovery in environmental microbiology.
10 years of coding experience
The University of Melbourne