I am a new lecturer of physical metallurgy at the School of Materials Science & Engineering at UNSW Australia. My research interests are in microstructure-property relationships of structural metallic materials such as steels, nickel-based alloys and refractory metals. I study these materials across their processing chain using correlative microscopy such as SEM, TEM, EBSD, TKD, FIB, and atom probe tomography. In my research I am seeking a balance between fundamental discovery and industrial application. I was awarded my Ph.D. (July 2012) in Materials Science at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. My Ph.D. research was carried out in the Department of Physical Metallurgy and Materials Testing and was an applied project in collaboration with Plansee SE, Austria. I designed and oversaw the implementation of a new rolling and annealing schedule for the production of defect-free molybdenum plates such as are required for various electronics, coatings and high temperature applications. I became an expert in EBSD and SEM. I was also fortunate to receive additional funding to conduct atom probe tomography studies of precipitation in steels in the framework of the Christian Doppler Laboratory Early Stages of Precipitation, a prestigious Austrian funding program. I was appointed to the position of a Post-Doctoral research fellow in the Christian Doppler Laboratory in 2012. During this time I extended my research portfolio to new materials and methods such as nickel-based alloys and site-specific FIB and TKD specimen preparation techniques for studying grain boundary segregation. In July 2013, I successfully applied for a continuing position as “Senior Scientist” at Montanuniversität Leoben where I headed the “High Performance Materials and Steels” research group for two years and established a strong network with European industrial partners. In July 2015 I was seeking new challenges and moved to the opposite side of the globe.