Dr Yoriko Lill is a research associate at University Hospital Basel (USB). She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University, USA, and her PhD in biophysics from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried and the Technical University of Munich, Germany. She has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and in the Nano-Optics Group at the University of Basel. Prior to joining USB, she was a research associate in the Single-Molecule Biophysics Group and a lecturer in statistics at Purdue University, USA.