S.S. Babu
Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; tel. 865-974-5184; and email sbabu@utk.edu.
Babu obtained his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from PSG College of Technology, India, and his master’s degree in industrial welding metallurgy–materials joining from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He obtained his PhD degree in materials science and metallurgy from the University of Cambridge in 1992. He was appointed as University of Tennessee, Knoxville/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair of Advanced Manufacturing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2013. Babu’s collaborative research focuses on materials and manufacturing.
David L. Bourell
Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA; tel. 512-471-3170; and email dbourell@mail.utexas.edu.
Bourell is the Temple Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is currently Director of the Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication. His areas of research include particulate processing with emphasis on sintering kinetics and densification, and materials issues associated with laser sintering. Bourell holds nine primary patents dealing with materials innovations in laser sintering dating back to 1990, and has published more than 200 papers in journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters.
Suman Das
Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; tel. 404-385-6027; and email sumandas@gatech.edu.
Das is the Morris M. Bryan Jr. Chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems, professor of mechanical engineering and of materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech. He is the Director of the Direct Digital Manufacturing Laboratory. His research interests include advanced 3D printing and additive manufacturing in metals, ceramics, and polymers through a synergistic combination of computational design methods, materials processing technologies, and materials science. Das has published more than 180 technical articles and holds seven patents.
Moataz M. Attallah
Advanced Materials and Processing Lab, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, UK; tel. +44-121-414-7842; and email m.m.attallah@bham.ac.uk.
Attallah is a chair in advanced materials processing and director of the Advanced Materials and Processing Laboratory in the School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham. He received his PhD degree from the University of Birmingham, and worked as a research fellow at The University of Manchester Materials Science Center from 2007 to 2010. His research interests include phase transformations, microstructure–property and structural integrity development in friction-based welding technologies, netshape powder hot isostatic pressing, and additive laser fabrication technologies. His awards include the UK Ministry of Defence Award, the French Delegation Générale pour l’Armement Award in 2013, and the Safran Group Innovation Prize in 2014. Attallah has published more than 70 journal and conference papers.
Milan Brandt
Centre for Additive Manufacturing, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia; email milan.brandt@rmit.edu.au.
Brandt is a professor in advanced manufacturing in the School of Engineering, Technical Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Precinct, and Director of the Centre for Additive Manufacturing, RMIT University. He is the leading Australian researcher in the area of macromachining with lasers and in laser cladding, cutting, drilling, welding, and additive manufacturing. Brandt is an executive member and a Fellow of the Laser Institute of America and an honorary Fellow of the Welding Technology Institute of Australia. He is also the senior editor of Journal of Laser Applications.
Mathieu Brochu
Aluminum Research Centre–REGAL, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Canada; tel. 514-398-2354; and email mathieu.brochu@mcgill.ca.
Brochu is an associate professor in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, a Gerald Hatch Engineering Faculty Fellow on Additive Manufacturing, and the director of the Powder Processing and Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materials Laboratory, all at McGill University. Brochu also worked at the National Research Council of Canada on electron-beam welding and additive manufacturing of aerospace materials, and at the Advanced Materials Laboratory of Sandia National Laboratories.
Luke N. Carter
Advanced Materials and Processing Lab, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, UK; tel. +44-121-414-7842; and email l.n.carter@bham.ac.uk.
Carter is a senior research fellow in the Advanced Materials and Processing Lab at the University of Birmingham. He is currently leading a number of programs on additive manufacturing technologies. Carter obtained his PhD degree at the University of Birmingham, studying selective laser melting of the CM247LC Ni superalloy.
Shih Cheng Chou
Aluminum Research Centre–REGAL, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Canada; tel. 438-926-8033; and email shih.chou@mail.mcgill.ca.
Chou is a MEng student in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University. His research focuses on linking mechanical properties and finite element analysis to develop deformation simulations of Al-based additive manufacturing parts. He received his bachelor’s degree in applied science in materials engineering from The University of British Columbia in 2013. Chou joined the Powder Processing and Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materials Laboratory in 2015 to further pursue his interest in metallic additive manufacturing.
Sasan Dadbakhsh
Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium; tel. +32 16 37 28 66; and email sasan.dadbakhsh@kuleuven.be.
Dadbakhsh is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KU Leuven. He developed novel in situ aluminum composites via selective laser melting while completing his PhD degree at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests and publications include topics from polymers to metals, metal-matrix composites, shape-memory alloys, and advanced materials made by additive manufacturing techniques.
Yaoyao Ding
Aluminum Research Centre–REGAL, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Canada; email yaoyao.ding@mail.mcgill.ca.
Ding is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Powder Processing and Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materials group at McGill University. She received her MS degree 2011 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in chemical and material engineering. She joined the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University, and received her PhD degree in 2016. Ding’s research interest focuses on additive manufacturing of metallic powders, residual stress measurements, texture analysis, microstructure analysis, and mechanical testing.
William Frazier
Air Vehicle Engineering Department, Naval Air Systems Command, USA; tel. 301-342-8003; and email william.frazier@navy.mil.
Frazier is a Navy senior scientist for materials engineering and serves as the chief scientist of the Air Vehicle Engineering Department at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). He provides technical direction and develops strategic plans for the research, development, and transition of naval aviation materials technologies. He has authored more than 90 publications, edited six books, and holds two patents. Frazier is an associate editor for the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance and is a key reader for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A.
Rachel Jennings
Advanced Materials and Processing Lab, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, UK; tel. +44-121-414-7842; and email REJ024@student.bham.ac.uk.
Jennings is a doctoral candidate in the Advanced Materials and Processing Lab at the University of Birmingham. She received her BSc degree in sports and materials science in 2014. Jennings is currently studying additive manufacturing and powder processing of Ni superalloys.
Jean-Pierre Kruth
Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium; tel. +32 16 32 24 90; and email jean-pierre.kruth@kuleuven.be.
Kruth is a full professor at KU Leuven, responsible for education and research in production engineering, including CAD/CAM, metal cutting, nontraditional machining (EDM and laser machining), additive manufacturing, dimensional metrology, and quality control. He is a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering, a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Laureate of the US Franklin Institute, and founding board member of the AM companies Materialise, 3DS LayerWise, and metrology company Metris (now named Nikon Metrology). Kruth has co-authored more than 500 scientific publications.
Shujun Li
Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; email shjli@imr.ac.cn.
Li is a professor at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR, CAS). He earned BS and MS degrees, both from Shenyang University of Technology, and a PhD degree from IMR, CAS. His current research interests include additive manufacturing via electron-beam melting technology, aiming to understand the structure–process–property relationship of three-dimensional printable metallic materials and explore their practical applications in aerospace and biomedical components. Li has published more than 50 papers and two books.
Jose A. Muñiz-Lerma
Aluminum Research Centre–REGAL, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Canada; email jose.muniz@mail.mcgill.ca.
Muñiz-Lerma received his PhD degree in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University. He graduated in 2011 from Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez with a master’s degree in materials science. His experience includes aircraft aluminum recycling, solidification, thermomechanical processing, high-strength aluminum alloy development, microstructure analysis, and mechanical testing. Muñiz-Lerma’s research interests include additive manufacturing of metallic powders.
Lawrence E. Murr
Department of Metallurgical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA; tel. 480-231-2635; and email lemurr@utep.edu.
Murr is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Metallurgical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso. He holds a BSc degree from Albright College, and BS, MS, and PhD degrees from The Pennsylvania State University. Murr has published more than 800 papers and 21 books. Recent awards include two Lee Hsun Lecture Awards (2010 and 2016) from the Institute of Metal Research, China.
Ma Qian
Centre for Additive Manufacturing, School of Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia; tel. +61 3 9925 4491; and email ma.qian@rmit.edu.au.
Qian is a professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Additive Manufacturing, RMIT University. He earned his B. Eng degree in 1984 and D. Eng degree in 1991 in foundry metallurgy, both from the University of Science and Technology Beijing. His research interests include additive manufacturing, powder metallurgy, and solidification. He is an advisory editor of Elsevier, an editorial member of JOM, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Powder Metallurgy, and Acta Metallurgica Sinica. Qian is a co-author of the fifth edition textbook Light Alloys and co-lead editor of the book Titanium Powder Metallurgy: Science, Technology and Applications.
Mathew Speirs
Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium; tel. +32 16 37 27 72; and email mathew.speirs@kuleuven.be.
Speirs is currently a doctoral candidate at KU Leuven. He received his master’s degree in mechanical and materials engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2011. His research focuses on the design and mechanical characterization of open-porous scaffolds produced by selective laser melting.
Huiping Tang
State Key Laboratory of Porous Metal Materials, Northwest Institute for Non-ferrous Metal Research, China; email hptang@c-nin.com.
Tang is a professor and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Porous Metal Materials, Northwest Institute for Non-ferrous Metal Research. She is a leading researcher in metal additive manufacturing by selective electron-beam melting (SEBM), porous metal materials, and powder metallurgy of titanium, tungsten, molybdenum, and iridium alloys. Tang has led a research team since 2001 that focus on SEBM of titanium structures, development of SEBM systems and technologies, and titanium powder production (PREP and GA).
Melissa Trask
Aluminum Research Centre–REGAL, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Canada; email melissa.trask@mail.mcgill.ca.
Trask is pursuing a master’s degree in engineering in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University. She received her BS degree in engineering from Dalhousie University in 2015. Her research interests include the processing and characterization of engineering nano- and microstructured materials. Trask’s current research includes the characterization of aluminum alloys produced via selective laser melting additive manufacturing.
Jan Van Humbeeck
Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium; tel. +32 16 32 12 81; and email jan.vanhumbeeck@mtm.kuleuven.be.
Van Humbeeck is a full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KU Leuven. His main research interest focuses on shape-memory alloys. He has published more than 400 papers and is a permanent member of several shape-memory advisory committees. Van Humbeeck is also involved in microstructural analysis and the study of mechanical properties of materials produced by selective laser melting.
Andrew Walker
Aluminum Research Centre–REGAL, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Canada; tel. 438-883-6304; and email andrew.walker3@mail.mcgill.ca.
Walker is currently pursuing his master’s degree at McGill University. His research focuses on the additive manufacturing of high-strength aluminum alloys. He completed his undergraduate studies at McGill University in materials engineering in 2014. Walker has completed co-op terms in the process industry with Sherritt International and Xstrata Zinc.
Xiqian Wang
Advanced Materials and Processing Lab, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, UK; tel. +44-121-414-7842; and email XXW237@student.bham.ac.uk.
Wang is currently a doctoral candidate in the Advanced Materials and Processing Lab at the University of Birmingham. She is currently working on microstructural and residual stress development in additive manufacturing of Ni superalloys. Wang received her BSc degree in materials science from the University of Birmingham in 2013.
Wei Xu
Department of Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia; email wei.xu@mq.edu.au.
Xu is a senior lecturer in the Department of Engineering, Macquarie University. He was a senior research fellow at the Centre for Additive Manufacturing of RMIT University. Xu’s research interests focus on laser additive manufacturing of titanium alloys, low modulus biocompatible beta-type titanium alloys, nanostructured metallic alloys and composites, solidification processing, and solid-state phase transformation in metallic materials.
