Meet our team
Programme leads
Prof Stewart Williams
Head of welding engineering and laser processing
Programme director
Sónia Meco
Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager
Programme Manager
Academic input
Prof Supriyo Ganguly
Reader in Welding and Additive Materials Science
Materials Science, Thermal Processing, Welding, Additive Manufacturing, structural integrity
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
Process Development, Laser and Arc based Fusion Processes, Process Physics
Dr Tom Charrett
Lecturer
Instrumentation, sensors and measurement science, sensor technologies
Dr Jian Qin
Lecturer in Digitalisation for Metal Additive Manufacturing
AM System Integration, Process Monitoring and Controlling, and Advanced Data Analytics.
Dr Yongle Sun
Lecturer in Additive Manufacture
Process modelling, design, evaluation, enhancement.
Researchers
Dr Goncalo Pardal
Senior Research Fellow
Laser Processing, Laser/Arc DED, ancillary technologies as local shielding, wire positioning and feeding
Dr 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 João Bento
Research Fellow in Additive Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing, Welding, Process development of high deposition rate Wire-based Metal Additive Manufacturing, Non-Destructive Testing
Dr William James
Research Fellow
Additive Manufacturing, WAAM process development for nickel superalloys, mechanical and microstructural characterisation
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.
Dr Eloïse Eimer
Senior Research Fellow in Additive Manufacture
WAAM process for aluminium deposition, aluminium metallurgy and Life cycle assessment for WAAM
Dr Wai Jun Lai
Research Fellow in Additive Manufacture
Additive Manufacturing, Welding, Laser and Electron beam processing, Process Development.
Dr Xin Chen
Research Fellow in Modelling of Wire-based Additive Manufacture
Welding, Metallic Additive Manufacturing, Modelling and Simulation
Dr Shuo Feng
Research Fellow in Process Monitoring and Automation for Additive Manufacture
Process Monitoring, Machine Learning, Data Analysis
Dr Zhiyong Li
Research Fellow in Process Modelling of Additive Manufacture
Local shielding, multiphysics modelling of arc plasma, numerical simulation of melt pool dynamics in WAAM
Research assistants
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Students
Paul Poulain
PhD student
Alireza M. Haghighi
PhD student
Zahraddeen Musa
PhD student
Xichen Wang
PhD student
James German
PhD student
Soumyajit Koley
PhD student
Xian Dai
PhD student
Hanxing Zhang
PhD student
Ruofeng Cao
PhD student