Ali Zolfagharian is among the 2% top-cited scientists listed by Stanford University and Elsevier (2020), the Alfred Deakin Medallist for Best Doctoral Thesis (2019), and the Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowship Awardee (2018). He is co-founder of the 4D Printing Society, co-editor of 4D-printed Smart Materials and Structures, and a Mechanical Engineering lecturer in the School of Engineering, Deakin University, Australia. Dr. Zolfagharian established the 3D/4D printed soft robots and soft actuators labs in Australia in 2016. He has thus far received $183k research support funds from 3DEC (Deakin Digital Design and Engineering Centre), IISRI (Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation), and industrial firms. His recent research outputs in the field of 3D and 4D printing include 65 articles, the guest editing of special issues, and four edited books.