Dr Patrick Pradel is a Lecturer in Product Industrial User-Centred Design at the Loughborough School of Design and the Creative Arts, and a member of the Design for Digital Fabrication Research Group (D 4DF). His research focuses on Design for Additive Manufacturing, Technology-Inspired Design, and Design Education. Patrick is the PI for the EPSRC UK Design for AM Network, reviewer for different scientific journals, and Associate/Review Editor for Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology. He has more than twelve years of teaching experience in product and industrial design.
Andrea Zocca is a researcher in the division “Ceramic Processing and Biomaterials” at BAM in Berlin, Germany.
He graduated from the University of Padova, where he obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He obtained his doctoral title in 2015 in the frame of a co-tutored doctorate between the University of Padova (Italy) and the Technical University of Clausthal (Germany). In 2015 he became Adolf Martens fellow at BAM and since 2017 he has had a permanent position as a researcher at the same institution.
His main research interest is in the development of novel technologies and feedstocks for the additive manufacturing of advanced ceramic materials.
Claus Aumund-Kopp, Fraunhofer IFAM, Bremen, Germany
Claus received his diploma in Production Engineering from the University of Bremen in 1995 and has more than 25 years of experience in product development and material processes – especially in Additive Manufacturing.
He started working for the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials – IFAM – in Bremen, Germany in 2005.
Presently, he is leading the institute’s AM group and is responsible for the development of new processes and materials for Additive Manufacturing.
Special interests today are Sinter-based AM processes and powder quality.
Memberships:
• European Powder Metallurgy Association – Sectoral Group “Additive Manufacturing” (EuroAM) – Co-chairman
• Additive Manufacturing Nordwest e.V. – network in Northern Germany – Chairman
• Fraunhofer internal AM network – Deputy Chairman
• VDI Committee 105.2 – Materials for AM
Igor Levin leads the Materials Structure & Data Group in the Materials Measurement Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg MD. He received his Dipl. Eng. in Metallurgy (with distinction) from the Polytechnical Institute of St. Peterburg, Russia, and both M. Sc. & D. Sc. Degrees in Materials Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Dr. Levin is pursuing research into structure-property relationships in electroceramics by developing methods for combining inputs from diffraction, spectroscopic, and transmission electron microscopy techniques to obtain structural models that span length-scales from sub-nanometer to macroscopic. His recent interests also encompass ceramic processing, including additive manufacturing.
Marko Bosman has an MSc degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Technical University of Delft and has extensive experience in the field of aerospace materials and manufacturing technology. He worked in design, manufacturing, and management roles on structural components of several aircraft programs for different OEMs. He started exploring Additive Manufacturing technology in 2010 from prototyping and tooling to the first aircraft applications at Fokker. In his current role as Chief Technologist, he coordinates the global Additive Manufacturing developments and implementation at GKN Aerospace.
António José Vilela Pontes
Associate Professor, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho.
Director of the Polymer Engineering Department from 2011 to 2013.
Website: www.dep.uminho.pt
Deputy Director of the Polymers and Composite Institute between 2013 and 2016.
Website: www.ipc.uminho.pt
In the last 20 years, he has coordinated more than 40 projects in the context of R&DT+I of University-Industry collaboration.
Since 2012, he has been Coordinator of the Bosch-UMinho partnership, currently in the 3rd phase of the partnership.
Website: www.innovativecarhmi.com
Represents the University of Minho in the Association for Specific Business Opportunities – OPEN, since October 2008.
Website: www.open.pt
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Pool-Net – Portuguese Tooling Network association, within the scope of the “Engineering and Tooling” Competitiveness and Technology Hub, since October 2008.
Website: www.toolingportugal.com
Vice-president of the Polymer Engineering Innovation Hub (PIEP), since 2013.
Website: www.piep.pt
Co-founder and CEO of DONELab – Laboratory for advanced manufacturing of products and tools.
Website: www.donelab.uminho.pt
Contacts
E.mail: pontes@dep.uminho.pt
Phone: 934504244
Dr. Begoña Ferrari leads the research group “Tailoring through Colloidal Processing” (https://personal.icv.csic.es/colloidal/news.html) at the Institute of Ceramic and Glass of the Spanish research council (CSIC), and she is co-founder of the CSIC spin-off COLFEED4Print (www.colfeed.es). She is the current General Secretary of Spanish Ceramic and Glass Society (www.secv.es) and member of the Council of the ECERS, and was/is expert for different national/international evaluation organisms. She was/is leading national/international research projects and industrial contracts, today focused on the innovation paths that the integration of the colloidal chemistry and ink/suspension techniques, provide to the additive manufacturing of ceramics and composites
Dr Sozon Tsopanos (The Weir Group – Head of Additive Manufacturing)
Sozon’s specialties are rapid prototyping & manufacturing, Selective Laser Melting, Laser Welding, additive manufacturing, and STL file manipulation.
He is currently Head of Additive Manufacturing (AM) at Weir and was AM Technology Lead at Weir Minerals. Before joining Weir he was Principal Project Leader at TWI.
Flavio Gioia
Responsabile R&D WASP