My guest on this occasion is Jean-Yves Tinevez, research engineer and head of the image analysis hub at the Institut Pasteur.

I have the great privilege of now considering Jean-Yves a friend. However, some years ago, I was just a fan of his work, particularly trackmate. His reaction to me letting him know of this small piece of history was a true testament to his character. Jean-Yves is brilliant, loves the community he is part of, and conducts himself with great humility, he even reveals in our conversation some of the ways in which he checks his ego, making sure it does not grow more than he sees fit.

We go over many topics, discussing his love for experimental physics, how the need for better measurements and his personal skill sets drove him to develop trackmate, and how trackmate and other software he developed and maintains have evolved to tools used by the bio-image analysis community at large.

I hope that you find this conversation as interesting as I did.

Links for the episode:

Jean-Yves at Pasteur: https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/jean-yves-tinevez/

Twitter account: @jytinevez

Github: https://github.com/tinevez

Trackmate: https://imagej.net/plugins/trackmate/