Dermot Brabazon is a Full Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Dublin City University. He received his PhD (Materials Science) from University College Dublin. He worked with Materials Ireland, a state materials science research centre (1995–2000). He was appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at DCU at the start of 2000, promoted to Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School in 2007, to Associate Dean for Research in 2009, and to Professor in 2014. Dermot was conferred with the President’s Award for Research in 2009, became a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering in 2015, received Invent Commercialization awards in 2015 and 2017, and was awarded the AMPT Gold Medal for Contributions to Materials Processing Research and Education in 2018. He is currently Director of the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre at DCU; co-founder and Deputy Director for the I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre; and Director (RoI) of the Advanced Metallic Systems Centre for Doctoral Training. His research activities are focused in the areas of materials and processing technologies with a particular emphasis on the development of advanced technologies to enable improved advanced materials science, and engineering knowledge to enable improved products and associated production, capabilities, and quality, for the benefit of companies and broader society.