Dr. Zhiping Luo is an associate professor in the department of chemistry and physics at Fayetteville State University, North Carolina. He started electron microscopy in early 1990s. While he was conducting his PhD thesis work on rare earths-containing magnesium alloys, he encountered with fine complex intermetallic phases, so he used TEM as a major research method. From 1996 to 1997 he was at Okayama University of Science, Japan as a postdoctoral researcher to study electron microscopy with Professor H. Hashimoto. In 1998, he moved to materials science division, Argonne National Laboratory, as a visiting scholar and became the assistant scientist in 2001. Between 2001 and 2012, he worked as a TEM instrumental scientist at the Microscopy and Imaging Center at Texas A&M University, where he taught TEM courses and trained many TEM users. Dr. Luo has authored over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and most of them involved TEM investigations.