Roland Logé is an associate professor at EPFL, Switzerland, with a primary affiliation to the Materials Institute, and a secondary affiliation to the Micro-engineering Institute. He is the head of the Laboratory of Thermomechanical Metallurgy, and holder of the PX Group Chair. Roland is active in the field of processing and manufacturing of metals and alloys in the solid-state, focusing on the ability to tailor microstructures, and the associated material properties. Topics of interest include recrystallization, precipitation, grain growth, textures and grain boundary engineering, phase transformations, internal stresses and cracking phenomena, with applications to bulk metal forming and laser-based additive manufacturing. He is the author of more than 150 papers in these fields. He has also been a member of the Editorial Board of Metals, of the Scientific Advisory Board of the SEAM laboratory of Excellence (France), of the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source Scientific Committee (PSI, Switzerland), of the French CNRS National committee, of SF2M and TMS.