Olivier Deschaume obtained his MSc in Physical and Materials Chemistry from the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France in 2002. He then moved to the group of Prof. Carole C. Perry at NTU, Nottingham, UK to work in the field of Bio-inspired Materials Chemistry, first as a PhD student and then as a postdoctoral researcher. Starting from 2009, he worked on topics closer to biosensing, interfaces and related characterisation techniques in the groups of Prof. Alain M. Jonas (UCL, 2009-2011) and Carmen Bartic (KUL, 2011 onwards), both located in Belgium. He is now instrument specialist in the Soft Matter Physics and Biophysics unit of KU Leuven, with research interests spanning the fields of biophysics, biosensors, surface science, scanning probe microscopies and bioinspired/bio-assisted materials synthesis.