Meet our team
Programme leads
Prof Stewart Williams
Head of welding engineering and laser processing
Programme director
Dr Jialuo Ding
Principal Research Fellow in Additive Manufacture
Lead researcher
Sónia Meco
Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager
Programme Manager
Academic input
Dr Supriyo Ganguly
Reader in Welding and Additive Materials Science
Metallurgy and fatigue & damage tolerance
Prof Ralph Tatam
Head of Engineering Photonics
Instrumentation, sensors and measurement Science, sensor technologies
Dr Wojciech Suder
Senior lecturer in Laser Processing and Additive Manufacture
Laser processing
Dr Tom Charrett
Lecturer
Instrumentation, sensors and measurement science, sensor technologies
Dr Nguyen Van Ahn
Lecturer in Additive Manufacture
Arc physics, fluid flow, develop novel technologies.
Dr Yongle Sun
Lecturer in Additive Manufacture
Additive manufacturing, welding, modelling.
Researchers
Dr Goncalo Pardal
Senior Research Fellow
Laser Processing, Laser/Arc DED, ancillary technologies as local shielding, wire positioning and feeding
Armando Caballero
Research Fellow in Additive Manufacturing and Laser Processing
Process Development, Material Characterization, Materials Development.
Dr Thomas Kissinger
Lecturer in Optical Instrumentation
Optical Measurements, Interferometry, Photonics
Dr Chenglei Diao
Research Fellow in Additive Manufacturing
Part building, FEA modelling, Process Development.
Dr Jian Qin
Research Fellow in Laser Additive Manufacture
AM System Integration, Process Monitoring and Controlling, and Advanced Data Analytics.
Guangyu Chen
Research Fellow in Additive Manufacturing
Dr Jun Wang
Research Fellow in Additive Manufacturing
In-situ alloying metallurgy, Additive Manufacturing, Materials Characterization, Mechanical behaviours investigation.
Dr Chong Wang
Research Fellow in Additive Manufacturing
Process development of Wire-Based Metal Additive Manufacturing.
Eloïse Eimer
Senior Research Fellow
WAAM process for aluminium deposition, aluminium metallurgy and Life cycle assessment for WAAM
Students
João Bento
PhD student
William James
PhD student
Paul Poulain
PhD student
Alireza M. Haghighi
PhD student
Zahraddeen Musa
PhD student
Xichen Wang
PhD student
Emma German
PhD student
Soumyajit Koley
PhD student
Technicians
Nisar Shah
Technician
Technical support