Prof. Mark R Jolly is a professor and director of the Manufacturing Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Centre at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cranfield University. He holds a Bachelor of Metallurgy (BMet) from Sheffield University and a PhD in Metallurgy from Cambridge University. Prior to joining Cranfield in 2012, he was a senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. He set up the Castings Centre with a focus on technology and knowledge transfer of research into the foundry sector both nationally and internationally. In 1999, he created the Process Modelling Group after successfully completing his first EPSRC application on the Fundamentals of Investment Casting (FOCAST). Before moving into academia, he held various roles in industry, including positions at Foseco, the AE Group, and the Battelle Research Centre in Geneva, and he continues to have strong links with the metal manufacturing sector. Prof. Jolly’s current research interests include aerospace manufacturing, advanced casting science and technologies, computing, simulation and modelling, aerospace materials, and sustainable manufacturing. He has received several awards, including the ICME John Campbell Gold Medal in 2019, the Long & Notable Service Award (ICME) in 2013, the Josiah Mason Award for Business Advancement (University of Birmingham) in 2010, and the Oliver Stubbs Medal (ICME) in 2008.