Vadim A. Volochaev studied at the chemistry department of Southern Federal University (SFU) from 1990 until 1995. He combined further study and research work for a Russian Foundation of Basic Research project and received a Ph.D. degree (Physical Chemistry branch) in 1999. After a short, one-year stint in industry, he came back to scientific research and obtained a number of postdoctoral contracts in the Netherlands (Nijmegen, Radboud University, and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). Since 2014 he has been working at SFU on Pt-based nanostructured catalysts and their chemical synthesis, as well as on the investigation of the electrochemical and structural properties of Pt/C materials. Since November 2019, Vadim’s work has focused on high-resolution electron microscopy (HRTEM).