Dr. Francis Leonard Deepak is a Group Leader in the Department of Advanced Electron Microscopy, Imaging and Spectroscopy at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal. He received his PhD at the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India. His broad area of research is focused on the use of advanced electron microscopic techniques for the study of materials/nanomaterials for various applications, as well as in the study of fundamental physical phenomena and dynamics at the nanoscale.