First person – Jaeike Faber

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jaeike Faber is first author on ‘Quantified growth of the human embryonic heart’, published in BiO. Jaeike is a PhD student in the lab of Vincent Christoffels in the Department of Medical Biology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, investigating evolution and development.