Professor Aijun Huang holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Fellow, Chartered Engineer and Chartered Scientist of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining UK. He is currently the Director of Monash Centre for Additive Manufacturing and a full professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University Prior to his appointment at Monash University, Prof. Huang was an industry technical expert for a number of multinational corporations. Prof Huang held the position of the Executive Vice President of the High-Performance Materials Business Unit which exclusively manufacturing all aerospace metallic materials in Baosteel Group; a Fortune Global 500 company. From 2006 to 2012, Prof Huang was the Titanium Specialist of Rolls Royce Derby globally leading the titanium and titanium aluminides fundamental research within the company where he was elected to the Rolls Royce Engineering Leadership List in 2011 Professor Aijun Huang’s research covers the entire spectrum of metal additive manufacturing (AM). Research efforts have covered; AM specific alloy design; metal powder manufacturing technology; component design for AM; AM process optimisation; post-AM process development including inspection, qualification, and certification of final AM parts. Conventional physical metallurgy of aerospace materials particularly titanium and Ni-based superalloy has also part of his research portfolio.