Liisa Hirvonen is a Senior Lecturer and a core facility manager at The University of Western Australia. She obtained her PhD in Physics in 2008 from King’s College London, UK., and held several postdoctoral positions in the University of Melbourne, Australia, and King’s College London, UK. In 2019 she joined the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA) core facility at The University of Western Australia, where she looks after the Optical Microscopy platform. Liisa’s passion is the development of all kinds of optical microscopy instrumentation, and their applications in all fields of science and technology.