Sean Collins is a member of the SuperSTEM Advisory Committee and a University Academic Fellow in the Bragg Centre for Materials Research, the School of Chemical and Process Engineering, and the School of Chemistry at the University of Leeds. Sean leads a group specialising in electron microscopy for materials characterisation of molecular and porous materials from organic semiconductors to zeolites. Originally from the United States, Sean moved to the UK in 2012 to pursue a PhD in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Paul Midgley as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. During his PhD, Sean developed electron energy loss spectroscopy for quantitative, three-dimensional imaging of surface plasmons in metal nanoparticles. After his PhD, Sean held the Henslow Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge where his research focused on nanoscale imaging, diffraction, and spectroscopy of metal-organic frameworks in two- and three-dimensions.