Dr Akram Alhussein is an Associate Professor at the University of Technology of Troyes. He teaches Mechanics of Materials and Metallic Materials and his research activities are focused on the development of protective and multifunctional coatings. His main research interests are thin films, hydrogen, and additive manufacturing. Moreover, Dr Alhussein is a member of the LASMIS research unit board, Materials and Mechanical Engineering at the UTT. He is a leader of many research projects and a supervisor of many PhD students. Dr Alhussein had got his PhD thesis in the field of Mechanics of Materials from the University of Lorraine in 2010. Between 2010 and 2012, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Caen Lower-Normandy and then as a researcher at the University of Technology of Compiegne - Sorbonne University.