Juan Carlos Idrobo is a Senior Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research consists in applying analytical techniques in electron spectroscopy within monochromated and aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy to study the structure, electronic, magnetic, thermal, optical and topological properties of materials. He has published over 150 papers in peer review journals with over 12000 citations. In 2018 Idrobo was recognized by Cla-rivate Analytics to be among the top 1% of researchers being cited in Cross-Field in Web of Science, between 2006 and 2016. Idrobo holds Physics degrees from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia (B.Sc., 2000), University of Illinois at Chicago (Master, 2003) and University of California Davis (Ph.D., 2004).