Dr. Sokkalingam Rathinavelu is working as an Associate Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University with a focus area in Materials Engineering. He has a PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. In addition, he has his post-doctoral research at TALTECH, Estonia, and the University of Leicester, UK. His research interests include, but are not limited to, metal additive manufacturing, multicomponent alloys, welding technology, powder metallurgy, and structure-property correlation.