Lorenz Kienle is Professor for Synthesis and Real Structure at the Department of Engineering of Kiel University, Germany. He is the head of the Center for Transmission Electron Microscopy at the Department of Engineering. His research focuses on the synthesis of novel bulk- and nanomaterials by chemical approaches and thin film deposition techniques as well as their characterisation by state of the art nanoanalytical methods, including transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and others. Since 2015, he has been working on the nanoscale characterisation of artefacts as principle investigator of the Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ and the Excellence Cluster ROOTS.