Sandra Van Aert received her Ph.D. at the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) in 2003. Thereafter, she joined the Electron Microscopy for Materials Research (EMAT) group of the University of Antwerp (Belgium) where she became a senior lecturer in 2009. Her research focuses on new developments in the field of model-based electron microscopy aiming at quantitative measurements of atomic positions, atomic types, and chemical concentrations with the highest possible precision.