Dr. Thomas Kresse studied physics at the University of Goettingen, Germany. He graduated in 2013 at the Institute of Materials Physics at the same university regarding the influence of soluted carbon on the formation of vacancies in deformed steel when using atom probe tomography (APT). He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia and at the Institute of Applied Materials at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany for several research projects, whereby he performed nanoscale material characterizations of different material systems. Since 2016, he has been working as a research associate at the Materials Research Institute (IMFAA) at Aalen University, Germany. At this institution, he has been conducting research on the correlation between the microstructure and the mechanical properties of hard metals, whereas before he had focused on soft and hard magnetic materials up till 2018.