Jesper H. Hattel, born in Copenhagen, Denmark 1965, M.Sc. in structural engineering in 1989 and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1993 both from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). After this, he had a 2 year EU-funded Marie Curie Fellowship in MAGMA GmbH, Aachen, Germany, provider of the world’s most successful casting simulation software MAGMASOFT. He currently holds a full professorship in modeling of manufacturing processes at the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, DTU where he also heads the Section for Manufacturing Engineering. His research interests are modeling of manufacturing processes like additive manufacturing, casting, joining and moulding in both metallic and polymer materials. Applications vary from micro-scale over parts for automotive industry to huge parts such as wind turbine blades. The area is highly cross-disciplinary and characterized by multi-physics modelling involving areas like CFD, Numerical Heat Transfer, Computational Materials Science and Computational Solid Mechanics. Professor Hattel has been/is the PI/Work Package leader on numerous large national as well as international research projects. He is one of the driving forces behind the “MADE” (Manufacturing Academy of Denmark) which aims at promoting manufacturing and production research in Denmark in close collaboration between universities and production companies. Has been supervisor (principal or co-supervision) for more than 80 PhD students and 40 post.docs. Furthermore, he was elected “teacher of the year” in 2010 by the students at DTU and he is an elected member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) since 2013. In 2023 he was awarded the knight’s cross of the order of Dannebrog. Professor Hattel has served/is serving as an expert reviewer for the EU-Commission including ERA and as panel member of the ERC, the Volkswagen and Leibniz Foundations as well as the Research Councils of the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium and Slovakia. Moreover, he was a member of the Independent Research Fund of Denmark (Technology and Production branch) for five years. He has authored 500+ scientific publications with 13000+ citations with an h-index of 56 (Google Scholar).