Ian was born in Annecy (France) in 1998. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree at the University of Grenoble, in France. During his Master’s he studied Nano-chemistry, and Polymers for Advanced Technologies, and he worked on the “Combinatorial exploration of the pseudo-ternary Al-Nb-Ti-N” by using magnetron sputtering under the supervision of Prof. Raphaël Boichot and Dr. Elise Garel. He joined the University of Basel to do a PhD on the Mechanism of metal oxo nanocrystal formation.