Colin Hall is an Industry Professor at the Future Industries Institute, Adelaide University, Australia, and a key member of its Materials Engineering Group. He received his PhD in Materials Science in 2014 and has 9 years of experience in private industry and 21 years in academia. His research focuses on additive manufacturing and coatings, identifying new materials or better ways of using existing ones to solve problems for industry partners in space, defence, automotive, mining, agriculture and medicine. He is Research Director Defence at the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC), which promotes the adoption of additive manufacturing and coating technologies in Australian manufacturing. His group combines world-leading thin-film coating capabilities with an extensive tribology laboratory, so solutions are tested under real-world conditions, and it supports industry in the design, testing and qualification of additive manufacturing. He is also the South Australia branch president of Materials Australia.