JOIN MIAM IN WELCOMING TOBIAS SCHÜLLI as he discusses, and answers questions about, x-ray imaging and ESRF more generally. With the start of the first hard X-ray 4th generation synchrotron source at the European Synchrotron (ESRF), flux- and brilliance-hungry methods, particularly those exploiting nanobeams and coherence, are gaining rapid momentum across the materials science community. Combined with the growing use of AI and machine learning for reconstruction and data handling, this is opening new, faster routes from measurement to result.