Dr. Arenal is the Group leader of the Nanoscopy on Low Dimensional Materials (NLDM) at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragon (INMA, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza) and since 2018, he is the Coordinator of the TEM area of the Laboratorio de Microspcopias Avanzadas (LMA, Universidad de Zaragoza, member of the ELECMI, Spanish National facility (ICTS) for Advanced Microscopies). Since Dec. 2011 Dr. Arenal is on leave from the CNRS and he is currently ARAID Research Professor at the INMA and the LMA. Dr. Raul Arenal received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Univ. Paris-Sud (now Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France, 2005) and in 2013, he obtained his Habilitation (HDR) also at this University. From April 2005 to August 2007, he joined the Electron Microscopy Center in Argonne National Laboratory (ANL, USA) as post-doctoral fellow. In 2007, he became research scientist (Chargé de Recherches) at the CNRS (France), working at the LEM, CNRS-ONERA (Chatillon, France).

Dr. Arenal has published more than 325 papers in refereed journals (http://www.raularenal.com) and edited one book (Springer).

He is Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of the Societies for Microscopies (IFSM) (2024-2031). Dr. Arenal is member of the board of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME; periods: 2013-2017, 2017-2021 & 2021-2025) and in 2021, he has been elected Secretary of the SME (2021-2025). In 2017, DR. Arenal has been elected member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and this year he was elected member of its board (2017-2020; Communication Vice-chair and Membership Chair). Dr. Arenal is the chair of the HeteroNanoCarb conference series focused on graphene, NT and related 1D-2D nanomaterials.

Talk Title;  Unveiling the Atomic Configuration and Physical Properties of Low-Dimensional (2D) Materials via Advanced TEM