Prof. Dr. Patrik Hoffmann is Head Advanced Materials Processing Laboratory at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology and Adjunct Professor at LPMAT, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL, Lausanne. He is teaching laser materials processing at master and PhD level at EPFL since 1997. He is co-author of more than 130 peer reviewed journal papers and inventor or co-inventor of half a dozen patents. Guest professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan), and Shenzhen Technical University (China) His present research interest is in advanced processing technologies in 3-D printing, laser processing and replication technologies and High Vacuum CVD.