I am Sebastien Meurant, and I was born on the 3rd of August, 1996. I completed my bachelor's degree (2014–2017, Honor: Magna Cum Laude) in biology and my master's degree (2017–2019, Honor: Insigni Cum Laude) in molecular and cellular biology at the University of Namur, Belgium. During my master's, I completed a ten-month master thesis in the URBC lab (Unit of Research for Cell Biology) on the study of translational regulation during the hepatogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells. The data generated during my master's thesis are included in a paper accepted in Stem Cell Reports. I also completed a four-month internship in the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (HMS) in Muranen’s lab (Boston, MA, USA), where I studied the molecular mechanism of pancreatic cancer resistance. I obtained a research fellowship from the FNRS (Belgium) to start a PhD in October 2019 in the URBC lab to study the mitochondrial co-translational import in human cells.