Yen Thi Hai Lam obtained her B.Sc. in Chemistry and Education from the Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam. This was followed in 2012 by a M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry at the same University in Vietnam. During Mater program she became a lecturer of Faculty of Chemistry at Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam until 2016 before joining the group of Natural Products and Metabolomics at Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle (Saale), Germany, where she received her PhD in Chemistry in December 2022. After that she joined the group of Prof. Christine Beemelmanns in April 2023. Her research focuses on the chemical study of fungi to characterize new natural products of biological interest.