Prof. Geoffrey Mitchell is Professor and Vice-Director of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development at the Polytechnic Institute Leiria in Portugal. He is passionate about the opportunities provided by direct digital manufacturing. Geoffrey Mitchell carried out his doctoral work at the University of Cambridge in the UK and subsequently held post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and at Hokkaido University in Japan. Prior to his current position he was Professor of Polymer Physics at the University of Reading, UK and the founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Microscopy at Reading. His research work bridges physics, biology, chemistry and technology and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry as well as the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and a Member of the Institute for Physics and Engineering of Medicine. He is a Visiting Medical Physicist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford UK

Dr Wei Min Huang has over 20 years of experience on various shape memory materials (alloy, polymer, composite and hybrid), he has published over 190 papers in journals, such as Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and Materials Today, and has been invited to review manuscripts from over 270 international journals (including Progress in Polymer Science, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Functional Materials, etc), project proposals from American Chemical Society, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, etc, and book proposals from Springer, Elsevier and CRC. He has published two books (Thin film shape memory alloys – fundamentals and device applications, Polyurethane shape memory polymers) and is currently on the editorial board of over three dozen of journals.

Dr. Alexander Liu is Head of Additive Manufacturing Programs, Asia region at ASTM International responsible for ASTM AM center of excellence (CoE) and various AM programs Asia. He is based in Singapore and works closely with various industries and government agencies, helping them to utilize standards and adopt AM. He has a B.Eng in Mechatronics and Robotics Automation and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. With more than 14 years of experience on AM processes and materials, he received a total of 10 awards and patents in the area of additive manufacturing. He is active within the AM community and continues to review and publish journals as well as making making technical and business presentations around Asia.

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Prof. Soshu Kirihara is a doctor of engineering and a professor of Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University, Japan. In his main investigation “Materials Tectonics” for environmental improvements of “Geotechnology”, multi-dimensional structures were successfully fabricated to modulate energy and materials flows effectively. Ceramic and metal components were fabricated directly by smart additive manufacturing, design and evaluation (Smart MADE) using high power ultraviolet laser lithography. Original stereolithography systems were developed, and new start-up company “SK-Fine” was established through academic-industrial collaboration.

Dr. Sima Valizadeh is working as a CTO at Sandbacka Science Park in Sweden. Her focus is to develop the strategic technologies through fossil-free transportation, Sustainable Energy System, Digital transition of small and medium-sized enterprises and support them to explore the potential benefits and challenges of AM adoption across products process development. In addition, she supports the team with day-to-day management operation and deployment of effective inclusive innovation mechanism. Sima holds a PhD in Thin Film Physics and has over 33 years leadership experience in multi-Site manufacturing, developing solutions in Advanced Manufacturing for several engineering organizations & industries. To increase the visibility of women and diversity inclusion in the additive manufacturing industry she is acting in Women in 3D printing as an ambassador in Sweden.

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became professor in 1996, and he has been retired due to the age limit of 67, following academic life of 45 years. He published over 80 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 120 conferences and symposia in international and national level as Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Invited speaker, speaker or Poster presenter. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last six years (2014 - 2019) over 60 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by different companies in different countries. Additionally, he retired at the end of November 2019, and contributed with Keynote/Plenary Speeches over 60 Virtual/Webinar Conferences, due to the coronavirus outbreak in two year of his retirement, 2020 and 2021. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M. Sc theses. He is also Technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File. Scientific fields of Dr. Adiguzel: Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, electron diffraction, x-ray diffraction and crystallography.

Prof. Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Dr. Sima Valizadeh is working as a CTO at Sandbacka Science Park in Sweden. Her focus is to develop the strategic technologies through fossil-free transportation, Sustainable Energy System, Digital transition of small and medium-sized enterprises and support them to explore the potential benefits and challenges of AM adoption across products process development. In addition, she supports the team with day-to-day management operation and deployment of effective inclusive innovation mechanism. Sima holds a PhD in Thin Film Physics and has over 33 years leadership experience in multi-Site manufacturing, developing solutions in Advanced Manufacturing for several engineering organizations & industries. To increase the visibility of women and diversity inclusion in the additive manufacturing industry she is acting in Women in 3D printing as an ambassador in Sweden.

Prof. Dr. Ilaria Cacciotti is Professor of Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering and Materials Science & Technology at University of Rome "Niccolò Cusano", with consolidated expertise in the synthesis and characterization of (bio)materials and eco-sustainable systems. She is Member of the Research and Projects Committee and of the PhD School Board. She graduated in Medical Engineering at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Master of Science Award ‘Fondazione Raeli’). Afterwards, she completed the Ph.D in Materials Engineering (Ph.D Thesis Award ‘Marco Ramoni 2011, Ph.D Thesis AIMAT Award 2012) and she obtained the II Level Master degrees in “Forensic Genetics” and in "Protection against CBRNe events". Furthermore, she is reviewer for more than 100 peer-review journals, e.g. Acta Biomaterialia, Biofabrication, Chemical Engineering Journal, is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals, including Applied Science-MDPI, Biomedical glasses-DE GRUYTER OPEN, Frontiers in Biomaterials, Open Journal of Materials Science-Bentham Science, Recent Patents on Materials Science-Bentham Science, The Open Materials Science Journal-Bentham Open, Reviews on Advanced Materials Science-DE GRUYTER OPEN, and serves on various grant review committees, such as National Science Foundation (NSF) and Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). She is currently involved in several national and international projects. For her research activity, she was awarded with: 8th CCT Award “Best Oral Presentation for Young Researchers 2011”, 10th International Award "Giuseppe Sciacca" for Young Students, the European Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Doctoral Award (EDA-ESB (European Society of Biomaterials)) Award 2011, "Top Cited Author 2011-2012 ChemEngJ", “L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Italy for Women and Science 2011”, “Under 35 Talents in Lazio 2012”, “Featured Articles and Cover Pages for the following International Journals Chem Eng J, Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials Interfaces”, ”Young Researcher Award Elsevier" Materials Science and Engineering C" 2014, “Good Energy Award 2016”, “SRB Excellence Award 2018”, “Best Poster Award for 18th International Conference ”Life Sciences for Sustainable Development” 2019”, “BIOREMED Excellence Award 2019”. Research Interest: ecosustainable and biocompatible nanostructured materials, She is expert in the synthesis, processing and characterisation of bioceramics (undoped and doped calcium phosphates, bioactive glasses), biopolymers and composites, polymeric/ceramic/composite fibers by electrospinning, spheres and capsules for drug delivery and cell encapsulation, protective/antifouling/photocatalytic coatings, scaffolds for tissue engineering/regenerative medicine, compostable films/fibers for food packaging, devices for biomedical applications by additive manufacturing.

Prof. Geoffrey Mitchell is Professor and Vice-Director of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development at the Polytechnic Institute Leiria in Portugal. He is passionate about the opportunities provided by direct digital manufacturing. Geoffrey Mitchell carried out his doctoral work at the University of Cambridge in the UK and subsequently held post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge and at Hokkaido University in Japan. Prior to his current position he was Professor of Polymer Physics at the University of Reading, UK and the founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Microscopy at Reading. His research work bridges physics, biology, chemistry and technology and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry as well as the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and a Member of the Institute for Physics and Engineering of Medicine. He is a Visiting Medical Physicist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford UK

Dr Wei Min Huang has over 20 years of experience on various shape memory materials (alloy, polymer, composite and hybrid), he has published over 190 papers in journals, such as Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and Materials Today, and has been invited to review manuscripts from over 270 international journals (including Progress in Polymer Science, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Functional Materials, etc), project proposals from American Chemical Society, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, etc, and book proposals from Springer, Elsevier and CRC. He has published two books (Thin film shape memory alloys – fundamentals and device applications, Polyurethane shape memory polymers) and is currently on the editorial board of over three dozen of journals.

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Prof. Dr. Jürgen Eckert is Director of the Erich Schmid Institute (ESI) of Materials Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Chair Professor of Materials Physics at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. His main research interests are materials physics, metastable materials as well as design and synthesis of advanced high performance materials for structural and functional applications. He has published more than 1200 scientific papers, holds 24 patents, received several honors and awards, and is a member of several Academies and Associations.

Julian Polte got a Doctor degree of Engineering -Dr.-Ing.- from the Technische Universität Berlin and spent more than 10 years scientific, industrial and educational challenges in Precision Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Additive Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and the optimization of the related value chains and dedicates his scientific career, applied research, industrialization programs and high quality education. Julian Polte was an Research Affiliate at the renowned and world wide leading International Academy for Production Technology CIRP. At the Fraunhofer Institute IPK Julian Polte leads different departments with great impact into industry. He successfully published more than 100 articles and contributions in magazines, journals and on conferences

Prof. Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Prof. Soshu Kirihara is a doctor of engineering and a professor of Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University, Japan. In his main investigation “Materials Tectonics” for environmental improvements of “Geotechnology”, multi-dimensional structures were successfully fabricated to modulate energy and materials flows effectively. Ceramic and metal components were fabricated directly by smart additive manufacturing, design and evaluation (Smart MADE) using high power ultraviolet laser lithography. Original stereolithography systems were developed, and new start-up company “SK-Fine” was established through academic-industrial collaboration.

Dr. Alexander Liu is Head of Additive Manufacturing Programs, Asia region at ASTM International responsible for ASTM AM center of excellence (CoE) and various AM programs Asia. He is based in Singapore and works closely with various industries and government agencies, helping them to utilize standards and adopt AM. He has a B.Eng in Mechatronics and Robotics Automation and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. With more than 14 years of experience on AM processes and materials, he received a total of 10 awards and patents in the area of additive manufacturing. He is active within the AM community and continues to review and publish journals as well as making making technical and business presentations around Asia.

Dr. Bayram Gunduz received his bachelors degree in Physics from Firat University, Elazig, Turkey, 2001–2005, master degree from Solid State Physics, Firat University, 2005–2007, PhD degree from Solid State Physics, Firat University, 2007–2011. He was the First of the Physics Department for 8 consecutive terms (4 years) and completed the Physics Department as the FIRST of the DEPARTMENT. He was research assistant in Solid State Physics, Mus Alparslan University, Turkey, 2009–2011 and was Assist. Prof. Dr. in Department of Science Education, Mus Alparslan University, 2011–2017. He was an Assoc. Prof. Dr. in the same department and university, 2017-2019. He is currently an Assoc. Prof. Dr. in Malatya Turgut Özal University, since November 2019. His main achievements include organic semiconductors and optoelectronic materials: (i) electrical, optical, photonic and optoelectronic properties; (ii) fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices and and investigation their photophysical properties and applications such as Schottky diode, P–N heterojunction diode, metal–insulator–semiconductor junctions, solar cells, thin-film transistor, photodiode. (B) He has many articles (more than 70) published in SCI, SCI-Exp journals, which have high impact factors and has about 880 citations to his studies.

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became professor in 1996, and he has been retired due to the age limit of 67, following academic life of 45 years. He published over 80 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 120 conferences and symposia in international and national level as Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Invited speaker, speaker or Poster presenter. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last six years (2014 - 2019) over 60 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by different companies in different countries. Additionally, he retired at the end of November 2019, and contributed with Keynote/Plenary Speeches over 60 Virtual/Webinar Conferences, due to the coronavirus outbreak in two year of his retirement, 2020 and 2021. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M. Sc theses. He is also Technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File. Scientific fields of Dr. Adiguzel: Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, electron diffraction, x-ray diffraction and crystallography.

Personal profile： Bachelor degree at USTB, 2006-2010; Master degree at Central Iron and Research Institute, 2010-2013; Doctor degree at KU Leuven (Belgium), 2013-2017; Postdoctoral research at KU Leuven, 2017-2020; Associate professor at USTB, 2020-now. Research direction： 1. Additive manufacturing of high temperature alloys (Ni-, Fe-, Ti-, etc.); 2. Development of novel technologies for additive manufacturing; 3. Rapid solidification and heat treatment.

Aliya Rain has completed his masters’ degree in Aerospace Engineering, from Beijing Institute of Technology, China. Since 2020, he has been working as a sales engineer and director of overseas business development at NORMANTHERM, Suzhou Normanbell Materials Technology Co. Ltd., Jiangsu, China. He has published 2 academic research papers, one of them winning the prize of the excellent paper award. Also, he has written several online articles related to metal 3d printing, heat treatment, and vacuum furnaces