After completing his Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Toronto, 1990, within seven years, age 35, Doug Perovic was appointed Chair of his alma mater’s Metallurgy Department. Dr. Perovic, born, Toronto, 1962, is the son of Serbian parents, Rajko and Senka, both born in Montenegro in Yugoslavia. Following completion of his doctorate, Dr. Perovic took a Postdoctoral Fellow at the world-renowned Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, U.K. Today, Dr. Perovic has received worldwide acclaim for developing new electron microscopy techniques to study the structure of chemistry of advanced semiconductor materials. Professor Perovic, using the electron microscopy facilities at the University of Toronto, discerned that secondary electron contrast is caused by electron band bending due to the surface state of dopant atoms, a discovery that is “at the leading edge of a highly competitive field of research.” As a result, Professor Perovic’s contribution to the materials science of semiconductor and metals systems has made him an international figure of prominence, causing him to be in demand at scientific conferences worldwide. In 1997, he was, in fact, the only Canadian invited as an International Advisory Committee member and invited lecturer for the “International Centennial Symposium on the Discovery of the Electron” at Cambridge University, U.K. [Photo, courtesy Dr. Doug Perovic]