Dr. Carlo Grazianetti earned his Ph.D. from Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca in 2014 defending a thesis on the scanning tunneling microscopy investigation of III-V semiconductors and new 2D nanolattices. He is currently Research Scientist at CNR-IMM unit of Agrate Brianza (Italy). His interdisciplinary research expertise covers 2D materials beyond graphene and their applications for nano-electronics and nano-photonics. Since 2011, he has been involved as key-investigator of molecular beam epitaxy and scanning probe microscopy tasks in EU projects focused on the synthesis and integration into devices of the Xenes (silicene, germanene, stanene, and phosphorene).