Lucas Marc Pierre Chataigner is a postdoctoral research associate in the Armstrong group. He received his French baccalauréat scientifique with Mention Bien in 2010, after which he joined the University of British Columbia Okanagan to study biochemistry. In 2014, he graduated with honours his BSc in biochemistry with medical concentration and minor in mathematics and statistics, and subsequently enrolled in the dual masters in brain in mind sciences co-habilitated by University College London and the Pierre and Marie Curie University. In 2015, he completed a research internship studying a neuronal calcium signaling protein under the supervision of Prof. Jon Cooper from the Laboratory for Protein Crystallography at University College London, and was awarded an MSc in brain & mind sciences with distinction by University college London. In 2016, he completed a research internship studying a scaffolding protein involved in hair cilia auditory transduction under the supervision of Dr. Florent Delhommel and Dr. Nicolas Wolff from the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Of Biomolecules Laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, and was awarded an MSc in integrative biology and physiology neuroscience specialization with Mention Bien by the Pierre and Marie Curie University. In September 2016, he started his PhD in the Structural Biochemistry group at Utrecht University under the supervision of Dr. Bert Janssen. In 2022 he was awarded his PhD for defending his work structurally characterizing cell adhesion proteins critical to brain wiring and function, and started a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University in the group of Dr. Zachary Armstrong. The emphasis of his current research is structural biology for rational drug design involving carbohydrate chemistry.