Leonardo Orazi is a Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and Non-Conventional Manufacturing Processes at the Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy. His research work focuses on advanced manufacturing processes, materials engineering, and industrial technologies, with particular attention to innovation in production systems and applied research collaborations with industry. The main topics are laser manufacturing and material processing mainly based on using ultrashort laser sources. The main applications investigated are tribology, biomedical applications, surface colorizing, electrochemical applications for fuel cells and new generation batteries.