2023 Speakers

DAVE POOLE is a Chartered Engineering at Rolls-Royce where he holds the position of Additive Manufacturing Manager.

He began working in AM in 2007 and setup the first metal AM facility in Rolls-Royce in 2009.  Since then he has developed the technology through a number of material alloy and application programmes. 

He now leads a dedicated AM division with multiple teams, facilities and capabilities.  He has driven the world’s first implementation of Laser Powder Ped Fusion in a nuclear plant primary circuit pressure boundary application.  Dave remains committed to the advancement and productionisation of AM and is an active member on the ASME BPTCS/BNCS Special Committee on the Use of AM.

Chris has worked in the Additive Manufacturing sector since 2003 becoming Lecturer in Innovative Design and Manufacturing in 2008 at Loughborough University. In 2016 Chris became an Professor of Materials Engineering in the University of Nottingham's Faculty of Engineering. Chris is Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing and has been an Executive Member of the ASTM F42 AM standards committee and a participant in the BSi initiative of AM standards development. Chris is a regular presenter at international conferences, a panel member for EPSRC and a reviewer for International funding agencies and a founder of Added Scientific Ltd. In 2018 Chris was appointed Faculty Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange in the Faculty of Engineering

Prof Richard Hague is Director of the Centre for Additive Manufacturing (CfAM) at the University of Nottingham. Having worked in the Additive Manufacturing field for over 25 years, he is internationally recognized both for scientific endeavour and creating impact though industrial exploitation where he has a background of leading and managing large multi-disciplinary, multi- partner research projects from both EPSRC and industry. Richard’s research interests are focused on AM specific processes, materials and computational methods across for wide spectrum of industrial sectors with current research programmes focused on next generation multifunctional additive manufacturing and the generation of functional materials through AM. Richard has received multiple international awards and honours and is a co-founder and Director of Added Scientific Ltd, a spin out from the University of Nottingham focused on implementing Additive Manufacturing technical solutions to industry.

Victor Sans graduated in Chemical Engineering at the University Jaume I in 2003, followed by a MSc and a PhD in Sustainable Chemistry (2007). After he took a post-doctoral appointment at the University of Bath and later Warwick under the supervision of Prof. Alexei Lapkin. In 2011 he moved to Glasgow to work in the Cronin group as a PDRA and since 2013 as a Research Fellow in the same group. In 2014 he was appointed Assistant Professor and promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 at the University of Nottingham. From May 2019, he took an appointment as a CIDEGENT Fellow and group leader at the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) at the Universitat Jaume I. He has published >60 papers in top scientific and engineering journals (e.g. Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials). He has >3500 citations and an 31 h-index. Dr. Sans is an expert in Reactor Engineering, 3D-printing, advanced materials, sustainable chemical processing and process automation.

Dr. Wilderich Heising is a Partner and Associate Director at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He is a core member of BCG's Innovation Center for Operations and very active in BCG's Health Care, Industrial Goods and Consumer Products practice areas. His focus at BCG is on advanced manufacturing topics such as additive manufacturing, 3D printing, digitalization, the factory of the future, Industry 4.0 as well as on manufacturing strategy and network optimization. He leads the additive manufacturing topic for BCG globally. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the Technical University of Berlin.

Kate is a multidisciplinary Researcher, Professor and Entrepreneur.   In 2019 she co-founded the university spin-out, Meta Additive Limited, to commercialise a novel chemical approach to 3D printing.  Meta Additive was acquired by Desktop Metal in September 2021, further securing the technologies future. Kate is also campaigning to broaden recruitment into the manufacturing industry and into other STEM careers.  In 2013, Kate founded LivWISE to celebrate, support and promote women in STEMM. Kate was voted as one of the top 100 UK influencers in manufacturing by The Manufacturer in 2021 and Academic Entrepreneur at the PraxisAuril Knowledge Exchange awards in 2022.

Josefine Lissner is an aerospace engineer and pioneer in the field of Computational Engineering. Her work (including the first algorithmically designed Aerospike rocket engine) has stunned and challenged the industry. Before, she worked as Strategic Engineering Lead for software company Hyperganic, as well as the Porsche Formula E and the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 teams. Recently, she started her own company, called LEAP 71, in the field of Computational Engineering that is based out of Dubai.

Denis Cormier is a Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He has close to 30 years of AM experience, much of which has been dedicated to metal AM and the design, fabrication, and testing of engineered lattice structures. He is currently focused on advancing metal jet printing technologies to include jetting of higher melting point metals with greater material deposition rates.

Jon Meyer is an experienced engineer with a passion for the application of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies across multiple industries. As CEO of APWORKS, an Airbus subsidiary focused on AM, he has led the company to success by commercializing the intellectual property developed by Airbus during his previous role as a researcher in their Research & Technology division. Following an early career encounter with AM at Airbus, Jon has become a leading expert in this field, leveraging his knowledge to help drive innovation and growth for APWORKS and their clients.

Dr Ian Ashton has been working in binder jet and laser-powder bed fusion additive manufacturing since 2011, gaining a PhD in the field from the University of Liverpool in 2016. Passionate about system design, as Senior Engineer at Evove he is developing various additive manufacturing systems suitable for the production of water filtration components.

Dr. Christopher Tabor is a Materials Research Scientist within the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), located at Dayton, Ohio. He has been with AFRL for 13 years, first as a National Research Council Fellow and then as a staff scientist, following his graduation with a Ph.D. in chemistry from Georgia Tech in 2009. He leads a multidiscipline team exploring room temperature liquid electronics. Dr. Tabor’s work has been highlighted in the defense technology media and he has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles in the area of optical and electronic properties of metals with 12 patents.

Thej Tumkur is a staff scientist in the Materials Science Division and Physical Life Sciences Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA. He holds a PhD from Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, and a B.S. from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN in Materials Science and Engineering. Prior to joining LLNL in 2019, he was a Smalley Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University in Houston, TX. His work at LLNL has focused on applying laser beam shaping strategies to improve process control in metal additive manufacturing. His other research interests include near-field imaging, plasmonics, metamaterials, and two-photon lithography-based 3D printing.

Hayden Taylor is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research spans the invention, modeling and simulation of manufacturing processes, with the aim of reducing materials and energy usage to support industrial decarbonization. Current research activities have the following themes: (A) processing of materials for sustainable construction, (B) multi-scale volumetric additive manufacturing, and (C) contact mechanics in semiconductor manufacturing. He holds B.A. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

Douglas is the founder and CEO of Matta (www.matta.ai), a company developing AI to enable the manufacturing of previously impossible products. He completed his PhD in deep learning for additive manufacturing at the University of Cambridge where he built the first generalisable error detection and correction system for extrusion AM powered by AI. Previously, he received a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Industrial Design studentship and studied EECS as an Ash Scholar at Imperial College London. Since building his first 3D printer at the age of 13, Doug has gained a reputation of being “The 3D Printing Guy”, and in the rare event when he isn’t printing, he can be found playing music and enjoying a good cup of tea.

Maxim Shusteff, PhD, is the Group Leader for Materials Engineering and Biomanufacturing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  For over 14 years at LLNL, he has built and led a breadth of multidisciplinary R&D programs, recently emphasizing optically-driven 3D printing systems, and advanced photopolymer (bio)materials engineering.  He also draws upon extensive expertise in microfluidics, microfabrication, instrumentation and measurement systems, and hardware-software integration, most being developed for a variety of applications in bioengineering and life science research.  His undergraduate, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are all in Electrical Engineering.

Shoji Maruo is currently a professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, and Ocean Engineering, College of Engineering Science, Yokohama National University, Japan. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in applied physics, from Osaka University, Japan, in 1992, 1994 and 1997, respectively. His pioneer research on two-photon lithography has recently received considerable attention and is being followed by many researchers. His present interests include multi-material 3D printing based on single-photon and two-photon polymerization, 3D printing of glass and ceramics, 3D printing of biomaterials, and 3D-printed micromachines.

Brent Stucker, Ph.D. is President of 3DX Consulting, a company he founded in 2023.  3DX Consulting leverages Dr. Stucker’s 30 years of expertise in Additive Manufacturing, Academia, Entrepreneurship and Executive Leadership to help companies and organizations develop and execute technology strategies, protect their intellectual property, navigate mergers & acquisitions, and succeed in the marketplace.  Prior to starting his consulting career, Dr. Stucker served as Chief Technology Officer – Additive Manufacturing and Chief Scientist & Senior Vice President at 3D Systems.  At 3D Systems he worked within the executive leadership team to champion innovation within the company and throughout the Additive Manufacturing (AM) industry.  Before joining 3D Systems, Brent was Director of Additive Manufacturing and Distinguished Engineer at Ansys. He is the co-founder and former CEO of 3DSIM, acquired by ANSYS in 2017. Prior to founding 3DSIM, Dr. Stucker was a Professor at various Universities for 18 years.

Dr. Stucker was the founding chairman of ASTM International Committee F42 on Additive Manufacturing Technologies, and was elected to the ASTM International Board of Directors in 2015. He has received numerous awards, including the 2016 International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence Award; the 2015 Additive World Conference Industrial Impact Award; the 2012 Industry Achievement Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the 2010 Robert J. Painter Memorial Award from ASTM/SES and the Dinosaur award from the Additive Manufacturing Users Group. He has co-authored a leading textbook, Additive Manufacturing Technologies, which is used by industry practitioners and in over 650 Universities worldwide, with a combined distribution of over 5 million physical copies and electronic downloads.

Dr. Stucker holds numerous patents, has authored and co-authored over 200 technical publications, and has presented over 500 technical talks. He was a professor from 1997-2015, with various appointments at the University of Louisville, Utah State University, the University of Rhode Island and VTT Technical Research Center, Finland.  Dr. Stucker has served as an advisor to the National Science Foundation, DARPA, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and others to develop research priorities and funding roadmaps for the AM industry. Dr. Stucker received his B.S. from the University of Idaho and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, both in Mechanical Engineering.

Iain Todd is based at the University of Sheffield where he directs the EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hub In Manufacture using Advanced Powder Processes (www.MAPP.ac.uk). His work in Additive Manufacture lies at the interface between manufacturing technology and materials processing science and concerns the development of understanding of underlying physical principles related to materials processing to better control material form, integrity and function and hence economic value. Research in his group is conducted in close collaboration with Industry and on an appropriate scale to allow rapid transition of new laboratory discoveries into industrial practice.

Jason Gilmore has a BEng(Hons) in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and an MSc in Advanced Aerospace Material from Cranfield University.

Jason has worked for Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage for 19 years, and has been at the heart of the companies AM developments since working on the first Ever European Space Agency project back in 2007 where a complex RF part was redesigned to suit the process and manufactured.

Airbus’ first flight of an AM component on a satellite was just over 12 years ago, and Jason’s work extends to all forms of additive manufacturing as the topic is now vast. Jason is now the nominated Expert in Additive Manufacturing for Airbus Defence and Space.

Alexander Pluke is CEO and founder of Additive Flow, a software for the simultaneous optimisation of the entire AM workflow, which has worked with companies including Saint-Gobain, Royal Haskoning, Tata Steel and Zeiss to maximise their AM value.