Dr Nikolaos Tapoglou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management of the International Hellenic University Thessaloniki Greece (IHU). He received his Diploma, M.Sc. and PhD with a specialisation in manufacturing processes from the department of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete. Prior to joining IHU, he led the Emerging machining technology team in the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) of The University of Sheffield as a Technical Fellow (2016-2021). Between 2013 and 2016 he worked as a Research fellow at Cranfield University. His research focuses on additive manufacturing processes, Emerging machining technologies, Cloud manufacturing, the study and optimisation of advanced manufacturing processes, manufacturing simulation focusing on the calculation of in-process characteristics and manufacturing informatics. He has co-authored over 45 journal and conference publications and has worked on more than 40 research projects