Hann comes originally from the state of Johor in Malaysia. For his higher education, he left sunny Malaysia and moved to Leeds, UK where he completed his Bachelors and Masters degree. It was then that he was recruited to Dresden, Germany by the Vastenhouw lab to do his PhD where he is working to understand the genetic features that kickstart early transcription during zygotic genome activation. Having just moved with the lab to Lausanne, he will continue this research but now in an exciting new environment!