I am currently working as a Research Fellow in Laser Based Micromachining within the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center at the University of Birmingham. My research interests broadly centres on non-conventional laser based manufacturing processes such as laser micro processing/surface texturing and pattterning/ polishing and laser based powder bed fusion. I have been involved in 5 EC-funded research projects, viz. EcoLaserFact, Hyproline and HINMICO, MAESTRO and HIMALAIA over the past 5 years. I have also published more than 20 international journal and conference papers in the last 5 years.