Francesco Iacoviello is the Experimental Manager in the EIL X-ray Facility, part of the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL. He gained his PhD from University of Siena (Italy) in 2012 in Mineralogy and Earth Sciences and then moved to University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) where he served as X-ray diffraction specialist and laboratory manager at the Oceanographic Institute of the same university. Francesco joined EIL in 2015 where his research broadly encompasses the multi-scale X-ray Computed Tomography characterisation of a different array of materials, from electrochemical devices to geomaterials such as shale gas rock, carbon capture and storage systems and micrometeorites.