Prof. Nikki Stanford

University of SA

Professor Stanford is a Research Leader in Uni SA’s Future Industries Institute. Her niche in the materials research field has been to bridge the gap between engineering and science by applying a broad range of advanced characterisation techniques to “real world” problems such as fatigue, light-weighting and casting. Before joining FII, Prof Stanford held research position with Imperial College London, the University of Manchester, and Deakin University and Monash. She has studied a broad range of materials research topics including casting defects in nickel single crystal turbine blades, shape memory steels, phase transformation phenomena in titanium, and magnesium texture development. She is particularly well known for her light metals research portfolio, and in 2015 was awarded the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht’s Magnesium Award for international magnesium researcher of the year.
Abstract: Microstructural challenges facing “green” sheet steel production

Prof. Martin Leary

RMIT University

Martin Leary began his scholarly career as a postgraduate student within the Engineering Design Group at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Melbourne. As a member of the RMIT School of Aerospace Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, he proudly continues to engage with industry and develop novel research outcomes within four research fields:

• Engineering design and engineering education
• Systems approaches and optimisation
• Sustainable automotive system design
• Renewable energy

Prof. Baohua Jia

Swinburne University of Technology

Professor Baohua Jia is the Founding Director of Centre for Translational Atomaterials at Swinburne University of Technology. She received her BSc and MSc degrees from Nankai University, China. She was awarded a PhD (2007) from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Dr Jia’s research focuses on the fundamental light and nano-and atomaterial interaction. In particular her work on laser manipulation of two-dimensional materials has led to the design and fabrication of functional nanostructures and nanomaterials for effective harnessing and storage of clean energy from sunlight, purifying water and air for clean environment and imaging and spectroscopy and nanofabrication using ultrafast laser towards fast-speed all-optical communications and intelligent manufacturing.
Abstract:  Graphene for advanced manufacturing and functional devices

Prof. Craig A. Brice

Mechancial Engineering | Advanced Manufacturing, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA

Craig A. Brice is the Ben Fryrear Chair for Innovation and Excellence and Professor of Practice in Mechanical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, USA. He is currently Director of the Advanced Manufacturing interdisciplinary graduate program, which focuses on graduate education in additive manufacturing and efficient operations. He is also Executive Director of the Alliance for the Development of Additive Processing Technologies (ADAPT) Center at Mines and the affiliated ADAPT industry consortium. Prof. Brice has been working in additive manufacturing for over 20 years including time spent at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works), Lockheed Martin Space Advanced Technology Center, and NASA Langley Research Center. His work over the years has focused on alloy development, process monitoring and feedback control systems, and qualification/certification. He has contributed to over two dozen technical journal publications and has 12 issued US patents. He holds adjunct professor appointments in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Monash University, and in the Centre for Additive Manufacturing, RMIT University. Prof. Brice has a BS in metallurgical engineering from Missouri University of Science & Technology, an MS in materials science and engineering from The Ohio State University, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Canterbury.

Prof. Cuie Wen

RMIT University

Cuie joined RMIT University as Professor of Biomaterials Engineering in 2014. She was Professor of Surface Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology from 2010 to 2014. She worked at Deakin University from 2003 to 2010 as Research Fellow, Senior Researcher and Associate Professor.

Cuie has published more than 440 peer-reviewed papers with an H index of 57 and citations over 12,431 (Google Scholar). She has supervised ~40 PhD and Masters students to completion. She is an editorial board member for the journals of Acta Biomaterialia, Bioactive Materials, International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, and Smart Materials in Medicine. Her research interests include new biocompatible titanium, magnesium, iron, zinc and their alloys and scaffolds for biomedical applications, surface modification, nanostructured metals, alloys and composites, metal foams and nanolaminates.
Abstract: New Zn-Cu-Ti alloys for biodegradable implant material applications

Prof. Dong Ruan

Swinburne University of Technology

Professor Dong Ruan obtained her Bachelor and Master degrees from Shanghai Jiaotong University (China), and PhD degree from Swinburne University of Technology in 2005. She has worked at Swinburne since then and is currently Chair of Department of Mechanical and Product Design Engineering. Her research interests include: (1) characterisation of mechanical properties of materials at various strain rates; (2) evaluation of the mechanical response of structures (such as sandwich panels and tubes) under dynamic loadings; (3) additive manufacturing of fiber reinforced composites. She has secured over $7M research grants, published 220+ academic papers and supervised more than 20 PhD students. According to Science-wide Author Databases of Standardized Citation Indicators, she was ranked World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2019 in Materials category. She is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Impact Engineering and founding Vice-Secretary of International Society of Impact Engineering.
Abstract: Mechanical properties of 3D printed fiber reinforced composites

Ms. Alex Kingsbury

RMIT University

Alex is an Additive Manufacturing Fellow at RMIT University where she leads Engagement for the RMIT Centre for Additive Manufacturing. Currently Alex is investigating novel alloy design for the wire arc additive manufacturing process. Previously Alex has worked with the additive manufacturing industry, working primarily in commercialisation, scoping the technical and commercial feasibility of additive manufacturing projects. Previously Alex was the director of CSIRO’s Additive Manufacturing Innovation Centre Lab 22 and the Research Group Leader for Additive Manufacturing. Alex has worked more broadly in metal technologies including additive manufacturing since 2011, specifically her focus in in high deposition rate technologies. Alex’s volunteer roles include sitting as the independent expert on the Standards Australia Additive Manufacturing Technical Committee and being the Regional Chair for Women in 3D Printing in Oceania. Alex holds a Bachelor of Engineering from RMIT University in Melbourne; she is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors..
Abstract: Strategies for Enhancing Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing Material Properties

Prof. George Simon

Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University

Professor George Simon is a member of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University. He was the Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Engineering 2013-2020. Prior to this he was the Head of Department of Materials Engineering at Monash University for 9 years. His research is in the area of polymer and nanomaterials science and technology. He has been particularly involved in nanocomposites with clay and other functional nanoparticles being combined with polymers to improve properties such as reduced flammability, mechanical properties, rheological modification and electrical and thermal conduction. He has also been involved in research for self-healing coatings, particularly those that are transparent and where healing can be stimulated by light or heat. In addition he is working in other areas such as bio-based monomers and polymers, 3D printing, membranes, flexible electronics and encapsulation.

Abstract: Stimulated Healing of Transparent Polymer Coatings

Prof. Huijun Li

University of Wollongong

Prof Huijun Li obtained a PhD degree in 1996 from the University of Wollongong; He has 25 years’ research experience in materials science and engineering.
He has published 5 book chapters and more than 400 papers over his career in the field of welding metallurgy, new alloy development, surface engineering, nuclear materials and microstructure characterization. In 1995, he joined CRC Materials Welding and Joining as a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Wollongong. In 2000, he took a research scientist position at Materials Division, ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), he worked on a wide range of research projects in conjunction with the CRC Welded Structures, CRC CAST3, CRC Rail, British nuclear research organisations and American national laboratories. During this period, Prof Li pioneered research on 9-12% Cr creep resistant steel in Australia. Prof Li started working at University of Wollongong from July 2008; he has been heavily involved in research work with Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC), Energy Pipeline CRC (EPCRC), Baosteel Australia Joint Centre (BAJC), and Australian Rail Industry, in particular, Sydney Trains and ACRI. He was involved in the preliminary work on the production of engineering components of Titanium alloys using one such method of additive manufacture, namely gas tungsten arc (GTA) welding with mechanised wire addition. He then proposed to produce intermetallics with twin wire system, combining the concept of additive manufacturing and in-situ alloying with GTA process.

Prof Li was awarded Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia, 2013, Australia Endeavour Fellowship 2014, and Defence Materials Technology Centre - Capability Improvement Award in 2014 and 2016. He was also received UOW Vice Chancellor Award - Research Partnership and Impact Award for the year 2019.
Abstract: Recent advancement of wire arc additive manufacturing technology at University of Wollongong

Dr. Vladimir Luzin

ANSTO

Dr Vladimir Luzin is co-responsible for the KOWARI Strain Scanner. His fields of expertise includes materials science, specifically the stress and texture analysis by means on neutron, X-ray diffraction, synchrotron radiation and electron back scattering diffraction (EBSD) in connection with material's (mechanical) properties. Originally Vladimir focused on quantitative texture analysis, he received his PhD in 1999 from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research where he had worked since 1993 in Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics in the German-Russian group studying textures in geological materials using spectrometers SKAT and EPSILON on the reactor IBR-2. After receiving his PhD he worked at the GKSS neutron facility FRG-1 (texture diffractometer TEX-2) during 1999-2000 as a posdoc. From 2001 to 2006 he works at the NIST Center for Neutron Research in field of stress analysis at the BT-8 Residual Stress Diffractometer studying residual stresses and textures in various industrial components (sprayed coatings, welded joints, rails, wires, etc.) and materials of industrial importance
Abstract: Neutron stress analysis for advanced materials and manufacturing

Prof. Zhenguo Huang

University of Technology Sydney

Professor Zhenguo Huang is leading the Hydrogen Energy Program at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He was awarded a Discovery Early Career Research Award and Future Fellowships by the Australian Research Council. He is a Research Advisor appointed by the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, a recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, the Chair of the International Hydrogen Carriers Alliance, and a graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors. His research is centered on boron chemistry for energy conversion and storage. Research interests are in the fields of hydrogen storage materials, electrolytes, and two-dimensional boroncontaining nanosheets.
Abstract: Boron for Energy Storage and Transfer (BEST) Materials

Prof. Michael Preuss

Monash University

Michael was appointed as Professor of Structural Materials at Monash University in 2020 while keeping a part time position at the University of Manchester where he is Director of MIDAS, a Centre of Excellence on degradation mechanisms of Zr-based nuclear fuel cladding. Before he relocated to Melbourne, he was also Deputy Director of the Nuclear Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre at the University of Manchester and Champion of the Materials Systems for Demanding Environment theme within the Henry Royce Institute, UK’s National Institute for Advanced Materials Research and Innovation.

Michael's research focuses on engineering alloys typically used by the transport and power generation sector. A central aspect of his research is to develop a more physically based understanding of the development of microstructures during processing/manufacturing and the mechanisms that determine their performance. In his research he utilises a multiscale characterisation approach employing electron microscopy, diffraction and x-ray imaging techniques. An important aspect of his work has been the development of in-situ methodologies using neutron scattering, synchrotron x-ray sources, and electron microscopy.

Michael has published in excess of 200 peer reviewed publications, 3 book chapters and is editor of Elsevier’s Journal of Nuclear Materials. In May 2019, Michael received the ASTM Kroll Medal for his lifetime achievements in zirconium fuel cladding research. In the same year Michael was also elected Fellow of the UK Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Prof. Rui Yang

Institute of Metal Research, CAS

Rui Yang has been the Head of Titanium Alloys Division at the Institute of Metal Research (IMR), CAS since 1997. He was previously a Title A Research Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, from 1992 to 1995. The alloy he developed was used to build the three-person pressure hull of Fendouzhe submersible which dived into the Challenger Deep of Mariana Trench in November 2020. He has developed a process for manufacturing quite a few components of the hydrogen pump and thrust chamber of CZ-5 and CZ-9 rockets, and a process for net-shape casting gamma titanium aluminide low pressure turbine blades which were successfully tested on Trent XWB engines. Professor Yang has a BSc degree from Wuhan Institute of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering, a MSc degree from IMR, and a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge. He served as a Deputy Director of IMR from 2001 to 2012 and the Director of IMR from 2012 to 2018. He has authored and coauthored more than 400 peer-reviewed papers, and held more than 60 Chinese patents and 2 US patents.

A/Prof. Sophie Primig

UNSW Sydney

Sophie Primig currently is a Scientia Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science & Engineering at UNSW Sydney. She was awarded both her MEng (2008) and PhD (2012) in Materials Science & Engineering from Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria. Following a short period as Post-Doctoral Researcher and an academic position at the same University, she moved to UNSW Sydney in 2015, initially as Lecturer. She was an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow from 2018-2020.

Her research interests are in Physical Metallurgy. She has a track record in both fundamental and applied research. Her research goal is to develop an advanced capability in structure-property relationships across the processing routes of structural metallic materials via advanced thermo-mechanical routes and additive manufacturing. The focus of her applied research is aerospace alloys, and this has often been linked closely to the needs of industrial partners.

Sophie has attracted funding via the ARC Linkage and Discovery schemes, industry collaborations, and the Australia-US Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Program. She is an Editor of Journal of Materials Science and the President of the NSW Branch of Materials Australia.
Abstract: The role of interfaces during metal additive manufacturing

Prof. Yun Liu

Australian National University, Canberra

Professor Yun Liu is Head of the Functional Materials Research group at the Australian National University. She was awarded National Fellowships of the AIST (1998-1999) and the STA (1999-2001) (Science and Technology Agency, now renamed as the Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) in Japan. She was also awarded the Australian Research Council (ARC) Queen Elisabeth II (2006-2010), Future (2011-2016) and Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship (2021-) in Australia. Her pioneering research focuses on defect chemistry, local structure and functional properties of condensed matter. She is internationally recognized for her application of complex materials chemistry to achieve novel functional properties for use in electronical technology, energy and environment. Her leading-edge research has led to ground breaking research achievements, numerous innovation awards, large industry investments and considerable intellectual property outcomes, including 41 filed/issued patents and over 250 publications in top-tier journals, including Science and Nature Materials..