Sašo Šturm is a senior scientist, a head of the Department for Nanostructured Materials at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, and the leader of the “Nanostructured Materials” National Research Programme. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 2003 from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a world-leading researcher in the field of advanced electron microscopy, combining materials science processing and technology with the development and implementation of state-of-the-art scanning and transmission electron microscopy techniques for materials research. His track record includes more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and his H10-index is 20, with more than 1000 citations.