Nicolas Martin obtained a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Franche-Comté in 1997 and a habilitation degree (Docent) from the same university in 2005. He was a researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) from 1998 to 2000 in the Physics department. He became Associate Professor at the National Engineering School ENSMM – “Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques in Besançon in 2000. He obtained a full professorship in 2008. He was a visiting researcher from 2012 to 2013 at the University of Uppsala (Sweden), where he worked at the Angström Laboratory in the Department of Engineering Sciences, Solid State Electronics. In 2017, he spent a short sabbatical leave in the Universty of Alberta in Edmonton (Canada) to work in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research is developed at the FEMTO-ST Institute and is in the physics and technology of metallic and ceramic thin films prepared by reactive sputtering. He is also interested in the nanostructuration of coatings prepared by Glancing Angle Deposition (GLAD). Nicolas Martin has authored or co-authored more than 180 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and about 200 presentations at conferences, workshops, and short courses. https://sites.google.com/site/sitenicolasmartin/