Zsolt Czigány is now working at the HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research. He graduated as a Physicist in 1992 at Roland Eötvös University and received PhD in 1999. He became a Docent at Linköping University in 2002. He received the Doctor of Sciences (issued by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) in 2013. In 2003 he received the Award of the Hungarian Society of Electron Microscopy. In 2010 he received the Outstanding Paper Award of the European Microscopy Society. In 2011 he received the Schmid Rezső Prize of Roland Eötvös Physical Society, Pócza Jenő Prize of the Hungarian Society of Electron Microscopy, and Bolyai János Research Scholarship (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). He is a materials scientist specializing in transmission electron microscopy of thin films, nanoparticles, nanocomposites, and nanostructured materials. He is experienced in the characterization of multilayers, fullerene-like structures, and a broad variety of nanomaterials.