Matteo Ferroni received his PhD degree in physics at the University of Ferrara in 1998, and became researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Physics of the University of Brescia in 2004. Since 2017, he is Associate Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics (DICATAM) at the University of Brescia. Matteo Ferroni is research associate at the CNR-IMM Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems. Matteo Ferroni published about 140 papers on peer-reviewed journals and is referee of several international journals. His mean research activity concerns the characterization of nanostructured metal oxides by means of transmission and scanning electron microscopy.